Have your designed and make graphic's from scratch before? It's no picnic in the park with design's. Idea's are great until you see them for yourself for the 1st time. I choose the inner ring for a purpose. So when selecting, it's used like the light around an elevator selection button. Used since the beginning since it make's it very clear with which button is chosen.
I can, as i mentioned, bring up the color some more, but already tried a few things before choosing what is used now.
-Chose a lit Red ring, didn't look right.
-Removed the inner ring, and made the button bigger to fill, and used both a highlight around the outer ring to show definition of chosen button better, along with a lightened selected button background (like used now.) and it didn't quite look right. Also didn't look as professional.
I am ok with making the icon inside bigger, but tried to make them equally in size to keep the look looking professional. That's the main aim after all.
I'm open for suggestion, to some extent though. But as Sharpe knows, i try a bit of different things with each thing i do before going with the ending result chosen, as i am pretty picky and if i try something that doesn't quite look right or off, i won't use it, or i will make changes until the ending result just 'looks right' or fitting.
Things i will look into though, add more color to the yellow ring which should help add more definition. I orig. backed off from using too much color as it creates a bloom effect and looses a little of it's intended purpose. But i could add more still and have it look good still. I will also look into make the icon's bigger to an extent. I have a 7inch screen i threw into my case and even at 7inch i can still make out which one is selected, so i'm not thinking that should be a big deal, but either way, I'm cool with messing around and see what i can do. I do consider myself to try to be open minded. And i will play around further with removing the ring and not cheapen the look..
I have an idea for the ring request that might be a good compromise. And my vision of it, should still look good, and yet allow the icon's to be bigger, without making the overall button larger.