Avery's Friday design intelligence

12 ideas worth stealing—with taste.

August 28, 2026 · A visual edit of this week’s strongest design posts, with the pattern behind each one and a direct path to the source.

Visual from Breeje Anadkat's post

Educational · X

The build thread

Breeje Anadkat · 190 reactions

Tool-workflow tutorial as a thread.

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Visual from Laura Vlad's post

Educational · LinkedIn

The experiment write-up

Laura Vlad · 261 reactions

A named fictional brand turns a tool test into a portfolio piece.

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Visual from rico's post

Educational · X

The spec dump

rico · 547 reactions

Exact values from real practice. Precision earns the save.

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Visual from Jo Bird's post

Educational · LinkedIn

The definition ladder

Jo Bird · 266 reactions

Client scene earns the shareable contrast list.

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Visual from Raul's post

Resources · X

Claim + curation

Raul · 619 reactions

The claim earns attention; the curation earns the bookmark.

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Visual from Josh Puckett's post

Educational · X

The actual tip

Josh Puckett · 1K reactions

Hyper-specific problem + exact fix. Specificity is the credibility.

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Visual from James Martin's post

Opinion · LinkedIn

The question flip

James Martin · 496 reactions

Everyone watches the bottom of the ladder; he looked at the top.

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Visual from Esteban González's post

Opinion · LinkedIn

The dissolving job title

Esteban González · 162 reactions

What travels between tasks is not the software.

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Visual from Huy Nguyen's post

Opinion · X

Studio reflection

Huy Nguyen · 146 reactions

Founder reflection with reasoning, not a flex.

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Visual from Ciprian Irimies's post

Opinion · LinkedIn

Reasoned essay

Ciprian Irimies · 219 reactions

Agreement problems wearing product problem clothes.

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Visual from Audrey T's post

Opinion · LinkedIn

Receipts, then the list

Audrey T · 122 reactions

The revenue trajectory buys the right to call four shifts.

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Visual from Atul Khola's post

Opinion · LinkedIn

The ugly first reaction

Atul Khola · 256 reactions

Admitting the bad thought first is what earns the reframe.

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Visual from Paul Jun's post

Work · LinkedIn

Paul Jun

Paul Jun · 830 reactions

NEW WORK. We recently shipped Router.com. Today, we're sharing the first look at our evolved brand. We're calling it Solar System. The idea was simple: build a brand system that behaves like jazz. Because the world is changing too fast.

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Visual from Alex Aperios's post

Personal · X

Alex Aperios

Alex Aperios · 177 reactions

I won't lie, recently I have been putting some insane pressure on myself to push out nothing but my greatest work and to perform at my highest level yet. I think the toughest thing as designers is how hard we are on ourselves.

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Visual from Vadim Carazan's post

Work · LinkedIn

Vadim Carazan

Vadim Carazan · 1,025 reactions

Brand guidelines delivered. The first pages have no design in them at all. Vision, mission, promise, and the brand idea: efficient connections. That one idea became the logo, lines of intersecting roads. Then the lines became the graphic system, and the system went everywhere.

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Visual from Disha Shah's post

Opinion · X

Disha Shah

Disha Shah · 216 reactions

the best product designers i've worked with—and learned most of my product design fundamentals from—have this annoying ability to notice when the company itself is creating the problem.

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