Design a textured app icon in Fireworks

This article first appeared in issue 228 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

Ever since the iPhone launched in 2007 the demand for mobile application design has continued its upwards trajectory. Many of us who had traditionally worked on web projects for a living suddenly found ourselves taking on design contracts solely for mobile interfaces.

Four years have now passed since the release of the iPhone SDK, and with other platforms such as Android and BlackBerry cornering their shares of the market, it doesn’t look as if the mobile wars will be ending any time soon. But whatever the platform, there’s something all these bits of software have in common. Every app has an icon.

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