Building an Icon Library

29 Nov 2010 - 11:24am
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Michele Marut
2005

Background
Our UX team is embarking on building a cross-company icon library, essentially a
web-based UI to a database so that developers can download icons from
one central location. 
We identified personas and scenarios, focusing on the developer and the designer. (They obviously have very different
needs.)
Benefits - everyone in the company can view and download icons across products- designers can update and add new icons directly to one database - icon requesters can filling out a web-based form to request a new icon or set. (they do this by email now) 


Questions
We are considering Drupal with add-ons and customization.- Have you completed a similar task using open source tooling? If so, I'd
appreciate any advice you have.- If you have done this, what tool did you use?
Thank you for your help.

Michele 
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29 Nov 2010 - 1:05pm
luismgarcia
2010

I Michele,
I have just finished a project in Drupal. It may help
http://www.ponunamascotaentuvida.com/
Drupal is great but you need to know very well where are the limits of your project because it gets short quite soon.
I hope it helps. 
Cheers
Luis Munoz-Garcia

El 29/11/2010, a las 18:07, Michele Marut escribió:

Background
Our UX team is embarking on building a cross-company icon library, essentially a
web-based UI to a database so that developers can download icons from
one central location. 
We identified personas and scenarios, focusing on the developer and the designer. (They obviously have very different
needs.)
Benefits
- everyone in the company can view and download icons across products- designers can update and add new icons directly to one database
- icon requesters can filling out a web-based form to request a new icon or set. (they do this by email now) 

Questions
We are considering Drupal with add-ons and customization.- Have you completed a similar task using open source tooling? If so, I'd
appreciate any advice you have.- If you have done this, what tool did you use?
Thank you for your help.

Michele 
--
Connect with me on:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MicheleMarut [1]

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30 Nov 2010 - 9:05am
Michele Marut
2005

Thanks Luis!

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, luismgarcia <luismgarcia.box@gmail.com> wrote:

I Michele,
I have just finished a project in Drupal. It may help
*http://www.ponunamascotaentuvida.com/ [1]**
*Drupal is great but you need to know very well where are the limits of your project because it gets short quite soon.
I hope it helps. 
Cheers
Luis Munoz-Garcia

El 29/11/2010, a las 18:07, Michele Marut escribió:

Background
Our UX team is embarking on building a cross-company icon library, essentially a
web-based UI to a database so that developers can download icons from
one central location. 
We identified personas and scenarios, focusing on the developer and the designer. (They obviously have very different
needs.)
Benefits
- everyone in the company can view and download icons across products- designers can update and add new icons directly to one database
- icon requesters can filling out a web-based form to request a new icon or set. (they do this by email now) 

Questions
We are considering Drupal with add-ons and customization.- Have you completed a similar task using open source tooling? If so, I'd
appreciate any advice you have.- If you have done this, what tool did you use?
Thank you for your help.

Michele 
--
Connect with me on:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MicheleMarut [2] [1]

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