Marek Minor

Marek Minor

@marekminor.bsky.social

Founder & Designer at https://minoradventures.co Creator of https://amicons.design, https://smallbits.design and https://gameswat.ch https://marekminor.com

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“The best process is the one that works.” – love that

Jonathon Toon@jonathontoon.com

In 15 years as a product designer, I've seen early-career designers struggle with the gap between tidy processes and messy, real work. Inspired by this observation, I recently gave a guest lecture to design students at the University of Canterbury about navigating this gap, read on about it below.

6 months. 289 icons. 2,378 meticulously crafted variants. I had been recently invited by Wayflyer to extend their icons into a robust icon system with multiple sizes and styles, building on top of Moniker's brilliant and original icon work. What do you think?

I’m losing my shit over Figma Draw! You can now create sketchy, hand-drawn icons directly in Figma! It’s perfect timing, too – I have been brainstorming for a while now how to tackle the potential Amicons Sketch style for @amicons.design 😇 OMG CAN’T WAIT TO USE IT

Just playing around with Jitter. It's pretty amazing when you need to whip up a quick animation. Here, I’m trying to showcase all the different icon styles in my set in one juicy, loopy animation. A bit too fast, if you ask me, but hey – at least I gave it a shot!

Wait a minute… This definitely didn’t work in Figma before – subtracting stroked shapes used to ignore the strokes entirely. But now? Game-changer. No more storing live stroke versions or outlining for days. It’s all live! Next: responsive icons. Stay tuned.

Just wrapped up a big client project – which means I’m open for new icon design work! 🔷 Icon sets & systems 🔷 Variable icon families 🔷 App icons 🔷 Motion design If you or someone you know needs custom icons, feel free to reach out.

The paradox of having to work overtime just to afford life (including daycare), but not being able to because daycare is way too expensive and so you can’t work and have to stay at home but then you can’t work… How are families, especially single parents, supposed to win in a system like this?

Some people used the end of the year to take a break, tinker with some relaxing crafty fun projects, read some books or magazines, update their portfolios… Some people have kids.

Kendrick is insane. I was listening to "squabble up" when it hit me: "I feel good, get the fuck out my *faaa-aa-ace* Look good, but she don't got no *taaa-aa-aste*" It's the GOAT flow 🐐 🤯

Seasoned designers work on instinct, and so they move fast. But don’t mistake instinct for subjectivity. It’s a skill honed over thousands of hours, grounded in millions of tiny rational steps. The difference? Instinct gets the job done instantly, without needing to spell out every step.

At daycare, my daughter rarely cries, even when she falls or eats something she dislikes. But as soon as she sees me, she starts crying and acting out. I used to feel like a bad parent, but I’ve learned it’s because she sees us as her safe space to express her emotions. Isn’t that amazing?

Hey everyone! I’m (in no particular order): a father, a product and an icon designer, a developer, solopreneur, past time photographer, forever gamer and a general nerd, total bookworm and a complete cinephile – many of these things and much more :) Very curious to see what this place is about 😉

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