Instagram users often curate their profile highlights by organizing archived stories into categories and assigning custom cover images. These icons are specifically designed to serve as highlight covers—visually representing the content inside each category in a clean, consistent, and engaging way.

Approach

Started with research and moodboarding, exploring existing icon styles (glyphs, outlines, duotones) and user contexts to align aesthetics with UX

• Developed sketches and rough concepts, experimenting with shape simplification, metaphor clarity—selecting the strongest ideas for refinement

• Created vector drafts, carefully adjusting stroke weight, padding, and proportions for crisp rendering at various sizes, iterated based on clarity and scalability

• Applied style tests—e.g. filled vs outline, monochrome vs duotone—to evaluate legibility, consistency