It was at about that moment Curtis reached out to me about working on the project. To validate the idea with potential users I made a landing page that collected over 1500 email addresses in just a few days. Pascal Gartner motivated me to find a developer to turn this into a serious app. Iconjar has been designed out of personal frustration, but after posting a Dribbble shot (yes it used to be a menubar utility because I thought that’d be a better user-experience) I noticed that there were more people that experienced this problem. How did everything start? How did you come up with the idea of Iconjar? I too discover new Dutch countrysides on a bicycle, but I have a road bike instead. I too love to go out and take pictures that I post on my Instagram on almost a daily basis. My favourite foods are burgers, pasta and Nutella, but not at the same time. I, on the other hand, am an all-day product designer.
He recently got his hands on a BMX that he uses to drive around the English countrysides. His favourite food is curry and he loves to go out with his camera to take pictures of airplanes or race cars. Before working on Iconjar he built a popular RSS reader called Caffeinated. It’s a native macOS app that people can fill with your own icon collection and we’ll do the rest to make browsing easier.Ĭurtis is a full-stack senior web developer by day and an Objective-C mastermind at night. Iconjar gives people the ability to store all your icons in one place, just one click away by presenting all of the icons in an intuitive way. I found out that I wasn’t the only one struggling with finding icons because, a lot of designers have a messy and unorganised icon collection.
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After switching to a Mac I noticed that I struggled with the same problem.
Iconjar icons windows#
Finding the perfect icon took way too much time due to the way Windows Explorer works. I came up with the idea for an icon catalogue when I was still using a Windows computer and had thousands of icons on my Dropbox. Iconjar gives people the ability to store all your icons in one place. Hey Justas, thanks for the kind words! We really appreciate it that you like our app. Check it out, it’s awesome!īut let’s jump straight into the interview! Iconjar is an amazing product! Could you please present it to people who aren’t yet familiar with it? How does it make life easier for fellow designers? Not only does it let you tag, arrange and search your icons more easily, but it also allows you to drag and drop icons into your favourite graphic design software. A great thing for anyone working with tons of icons and who are looking for a way to manage them all. A two-way interview, so to speak.įor those who are wondering what IconJar is: it is an app that allows you to organize, search and use icons the easiest way. The funny part is that they contacted me on the exact same day I wrote a note for myself to do an interview with them in the future! What a crazy coincidence! So here we are. Funny story: not so long ago, the guys from the IconJar app reached out to me asking for an interview.
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