I’m so glad that I’ve maintained being a stickler about:
- Doing the work to systematize things, especially design assets
- Adhering to using Mac-ass Mac Apps unless absolutely necessary
I broke my wrist during Helene cleanup, so I’ve needed to get a Stream Deck to make up for lost time due to one-handed typing. Elgato’s default icon sets are very minimal, making it hard to get something readable quickly.
Buuuut because I’m using Sketch and I did all the work to make a design system around Wren’s branding work for Practical Computer, I was able to:
- Open a new sketch document
- Use the design system’s library
- Make a 96x96 icon artboard
- Plop a Sketch symbol in there
- Use overrides + Font Awesome’s local fonts to quickly churn out icons
They’re not perfect, bad even! But they’re readable, and it was a trivial amount of time, and shows the power of systematizing.