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A small visual update for Link, our mobile provisioning app: new icons for campuses, buildings, floors, zones, and gateways.

I like how these work together. The campus uses a group of buildings, the building stands on its own, and the floor highlights a level within that same building shape. The zone gets a map and location marker, while the gateway gets a wireless signal.

They share the same basic appearance without making every item look identical. The floor’s small yellow highlight is a particularly nice touch. It gives that icon a distinction without abandoning the rest of the set.

Provisioning involves enough details already. These are the kinds of visual cues I want in the app: something that helps you recognize what you’re looking at while the labels provide the precise meaning.

Nothing revolutionary. Just a useful bit of polish.

And sometimes it’s nice to work on something you can appreciate without opening a database query or an architecture document.