Internet is a fast paced tool, that’s a given.

Sometime, we have little problems finding informations quickly and accurately. This is why most website uses icons in order for us to recognize a tool (and its function) simply by seeing its icons.

So a problem we sometime stumble upon, is how to get nice looking icons, quickly. We aren’t all designers and there we cannot always take time to create one every time we need.

This is why I’m introducing you to IconFinder.net, a website that aims in helping you finding nice icons.

Apart from providing nice icons, they offer links to some services such as a Favicon (favourite icon – the icon the website will have in your address bar and favourites list), or Convert Icons.

Actually, they also have a blog (shame on me for discovering it only now) where they have a nice post explaining how icons usage can be slippery in interface design… and how not over-use them.
I strongly recommend you read it on http://www.iconfinder.net/blog/4/!

Should you wish to receive more information, you might wanna follow me on Twitter, since I recently tweeted of a list of free icons they were advertising: http://bit.ly/free_icons. I have a tendency of tweeting some nice stuff before talking about it “officially” here. ^^

Stay tuned for more information.