Royyan Wijaya is a graphic designer who specialized in icon design with over 7+ years of experience creating tens of thousands of icons in his lifetime. Surabaya, Indonesia.

Royyan Wijaya — Supercool Icon Designer

Covenant | Product Designer

Why we changed one of our most important features — then changed it back.

There and back again: the product dilemma

30% faster and more powerful than ever, Astro 3.0 is here! Includes new features and enhancements around View Transitions, Image Optimization, Fast Refresh JSX and more.

Astro 3.0 | Astro

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The importance of iconography in communication and highlights how design adapts to changing user needs and preferences while keeping up…

How the lock icon can mislead you

Inspired by the kinetic sculptures of Felipe Pantone....

Ambient Color Spectrum

https://codepen.io/simoncoudeville/pen/VwqLrjm

Geist is a typeface made for developers and designers, embodying Vercel's design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Geist Font — Vercel

The foundation is the smallest unit of a design element that contains the minimal design rules.

Foundation

https://designsystem.line.me/LDSG/foundation/

UX Myths

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1226951433388984435/wordart

Text shot from an article by L.M. Sacasas that reads: “simply to be acknowledged as a person by a person can be a revitalizing gift, and most of us are, to some degree, in a position to grant it gratuitously. And we should.”

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/render-unto-the-machine

Made a little lightbox component for my personal website

Motion design template alert! 💥

I've crafted a dynamic motion template in Jitter that's ready to unleash your creative potential. 🎨

If you're keen to explore this template, feel free to DM me.

Even though they don't post new stuff anymore, this is a great source for small details.

https://littlebigdetails.com

Done revamping my personal site.
Feel free to visit :)

https://roywj.com/

So, I’ve had my portfolio ready for over a week or two now and imposter syndrome was getting the best of me. 

Anyways, this is me being brave right now 😊👉🏽👈🏽

I’d really appreciate your feedback cos I’m currently job hunting.

cee.framer.website

🎥 Just wrapped up a stunning interactive promo animation

🌐 8 NEW ESSENTIAL ICONS ARE LIVE 🌐

Head over to www.essentialicons.com to download the updated icon library. 💚

Essential Icons is a simple, thoughtful, free (forever) icon library built for the sole purpose of communicating clearly in user interfaces.

🔄 Horizontal vs. Vertical: The Icon Dilemma 🔄

Icons play a crucial role in user experience and design. When it comes to the orientation of icons, is horizontal or vertical better?

I wrote an internal memo at Arc about how our tabs should work.

We made a change a few months ago, then realized it was wrong and changed it back today.

The questions it raised are ones that come up in almost every decision we make, so I thought it would be cool to share here.

hello posts you'll never guess what I did 

(unless you guessed "buy another keyboard" because that's exactly what I did)

🖤 🤍

Black & white

The only colour palette that never gets old and is suitable and lovable for everyone. It's a classic that never goes out of style.

Astro 3.0 is the first major web framework to support the View Transitions API. Fade, slide, morph, and even persist stateful elements across page navigation with ease.

This is huge 🤩

https://astro.build/blog/astro-3/

Hi read.cv and post.cv team,

I've really enjoyed interacting with like-minded people. I find it refreshing that the platform is more honest and less cluttered than other social media platforms. It's a breath of fresh air!

My recent article has been featured on UX Collective and picked by editors choice.

The importance of iconography in communication and highlights how design adapts to changing user needs and preferences while keeping up with technological advancements.

Here's my design for the alternate Posts icon. It was a lot of fun! 👩‍🎨

Ambient Color Spectrum 🌈
https://codepen.io/simoncoudeville/pen/VwqLrjm

Vercel (in collaboration with Basement Studio) just dropped a stunning new font with sans and mono variations.

Is Geist going to be the new Inter?

Logo animation for upcoming brand identity project ✨

Yesterday I built a fun little plugin for blending shapes and colors in Figma. There's a long list of features that I didn't have time to build and a few remaining bugs but I figured it was useful enough to share. Will add a link to the plugin below :)

Recently found LINE's design system. Extensive and impressive. https://designsystem.line.me/LDSG/foundation/

Made this little UI animation for profile insights, one of the new features we built for supporters. Didn't know how to make the bar chart animation in after effects, so did it in Origami and screen recorded it, then skewed and panned in AE 🤷‍♂️

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As designers, we know tiny details matter. My latest piece on Medium explores how small tweaks to icons - like switching the 'more' icon from horizontal to vertical - can profoundly impact aesthetics and usability.

https://medium.com/p/713af862e336

The iconic Reddit Snoo alien gets a 3D makeover with this stunning #ff4500 "OrangeRed" color 🤩

View complete case study 
https://pentagram.com/work/reddit

Just released my new WordArt plugin for Figma. I'd love to hear your feedback! 😊

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1226951433388984435/wordart

Do we all read the technology critic L.M. Sacasas on here? Toward the end of a recent short piece on AI, he drops this nugget, which seems to me good advice.

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/render-unto-the-machine