Skype

  • Buzz Usborne
As the Skype application grew from being a desktop-based app, to being integrated on TV’s, smartphones and the web — it became apparent that their UI also needed an update in order to scale.

As part of the team responsible for the update, I was tasked with creating a suite of icons to be used in the future incarnations of the Skype product. My brief was to re-draw all 80 existing icons to work across multiple platforms, at all possible dimensions — whilst being recognisably “Skype”.