![]() ![]() Illustrator is not perfect, but is very powerful. In the rest of the article we list, by software package, what we love about each and what we think each vendor can do better, based on our own opinions and those from other icon designers in our community. Affinity Designer had not yet been released when we took our original survey so it is to be expected that their marketshare is still small after only 2 years on the scene, but if “the word on the street” is any indicator, they are gaining ground very quickly. Sketch’s marketshare in 2013 was only 2% but has increase ten-fold in only 3 years. Adobe’s marketshare among Iconfinder designers has dropped from 82% in 2013 to about 50% in 2016. SoftareUsers (from among respondents)Adobe Photoshop325 (72.22%)Adobe Illustrator45 (10%)Gimp9 (2%)Sketch8 (1.7%)Affinity Designer*0* Affinity Designer was not released until autumn of 2014 The change in results in just 3 years are quite significant. Respondents where asked, “What is your preferred software for designing”? There were 450 responses to the survey. The number of respondents using each tool in 2013 are shown in the table below. In 2013 we took a similar survey (though not identical) and the results were quite a bit different. The results are depicted in the chart below. We took a survey of Iconfinder users recently and asked what tools they use for icon design. ![]() ![]() We would like to avoid, however, appearing to endorse any one product over another or appearing to give an authoritative opinion on the goodness or badness of any of the products. This would not be much of a software review, however, if we did not offer some conclusions and opinions on the products being reviewed. We leave judgments about which software is best to the reader to explore and decide for himself or herself. We are purveyors of information that we hope is useful in helping icon designers become better and more productive at their craft. We compared identical tasks in each application and our reviewers offered their individual opinions based on creating a series of icons with each tool.įrom the beginning of this series, however, we have maintained that our objective is not to tell readers which is the best application for the job - in our case icon design - nor tell readers which application they should use. We have spent the past 5 weeks reviewing Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Sketch for icon designers. ![]()
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