Draw custom shapes and paths

Draw custom shapes and paths in Adobe Illustrator — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Draw three custom icon-sized shapes: a rounded shield, a looping arrow, and an open box, all as…
Draw three custom icon-sized shapes: a rounded shield, a looping arrow, and an open box, all as clean closed paths and aligned to a 24px grid. Save them as separate artboards, expand strokes to fills, remove stray points, and drop the SVGs into the shared folder for Alex in product by 5pm today.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I hand these custom shapes to Alex, make them approval-ready: simplify any paths with more…
Before I hand these custom shapes to Alex, make them approval-ready: simplify any paths with more than 200 points, ensure all corners snap to the 24px grid, put a consistent 2px visual weight across the set, and call out any shapes that will need pixel hinting at small sizes.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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I drew a set of custom icons with rounded corners, exported SVGs, and Alex reported inconsistent…

My rounded corners look uneven when exported as SVG.

I drew a set of custom icons with rounded corners, exported SVGs, and Alex reported inconsistent corner radii in the product build. I’m not sure if the problem is stroke alignment, corner effects, or transforms. What is the most likely culprit and the exact steps to fix these so the exported SVGs render consistent radii in the app?

Become — change the pattern

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Over a series of releases I keep sending icons that need post-export fixes—corner radii shift,…

I waste time hand-tuning icons after export breaks them in the app.

Over a series of releases I keep sending icons that need post-export fixes—corner radii shift, strokes become hairline, and file count explodes. Which routine checks and one structural change to my source files will stop this pattern and cut post-handoff fixes by half?

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Other vector design work people do in Adobe Illustrator.

Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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