Avery's Friday design intelligence
September 4, 2026 · A visual edit of this week’s strongest design posts, with the pattern behind each one and a direct path to the source.
Emmett Shine · 350 reactions
New work: ingredient-ai.com🌿💊 by @littleplainsxo with @jacobjolibois & @shahakash I got to work with Akash, the co-founder, over half a decade ago from start through exit with Care/of. Now we’re back together on a fast-growing, genuinely valuable business.
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Filip Justić · 428 reactions
Illustrations no one drew. Solvd, Inc. builds AI systems for enterprises, and this year the identity evolved to match the maturity of that work. Before choosing a direction, we mapped where AI branding is heading. Most of the category is converging on a few aesthetics.
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Lenny Rachitsky · 3,083 reactions
I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled.
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Dinesh Subramani · 750 reactions
I was working on multiple projects recently, and in between all of that, I was creating patterns for a brand. The usual process was painful. Open After Effects → build the pattern → tweak parameters → render → test → realise it doesn’t work → repeat for hours.
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Jared Hawkins · 263 reactions
I don’t have a design degree. I got my first design job because someone took a chance on me before I had much to show for it. She saw something, hired me, and put me in rooms where I could learn.
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Nick · 119 reactions
$213,882 CAD best month, this is after $43k in Jun. We worked with 8 YC S26, adding more next month. Yahia (Context dev) sent so many leads that I created a custom coupon. Signed a Fortune 200 company.
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Cj Cawley · 581 reactions
Is it wrong to design a logo that explains exactly what a company does? 😅 One of the easiest traps to fall into as a logo designer is believing the logo needs to explain what the business does/sells.
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Felix Haas · 374 reactions
Prediction: You’ll soon control everything from one interface 🔥 Opening different apps for different tasks feels super old school. Instead, you’ll have one interface to send emails, book flights, shop, and trigger countless services from.
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Brett · 300 reactions
I used to always advocate for folks to be generalists, and I still think you should behind the scenes. But publicly, I think it’s more important than ever to be known for one thing.
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Felix Haas · 405 reactions
Invisible Interfaces 🔥 The most interesting products I've fallen in love with this year don't really have an interface. You don't need to open another app, go through another onboarding, or find another dashboard.
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Safee Ullah · 361 reactions
The logo was not the starting point. The brand idea was. For RendezVu, the product vision was bigger than \"another ski app.\" They were building a community-driven platform around discovery, planning, social connection, and on-mountain experiences.
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Fons Mans · 452 reactions
I’m not really interested in one-shotting entire designs with AI. What I find much more useful is using tools like Figma agent to iterate on individual elements inside a visual direction.
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Filip Justić · 216 reactions
I might be getting old, but to me the coolest part of our rebrand isn't the shiny new identity. It's... the words. And I don't even mean the verbal identity, I mean the wordplay.
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Josh Puckett · 513 reactions
I'm going to share with you the secret to designing anything great. It's surprisingly simple, and works whether you're designing an interface, a house, or the menu for your friend's new cafe.
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Jess Rosenberg · 238 reactions
being head of brand & creative at an ai hypergrowth startup is easy... you just need to: 1. have taste 2. make a logo 3. define the brand 4. redesign the website
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Emir Ayaz · 267 reactions
my co-founder and i are both 18, scaling @arcstudio. august was our biggest month yet: closed a $7.5b tech giant, closed the fastest yc startup to reach $100m arr, tripled our previous month's revenue.
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Emir Ayaz · 285 reactions
our client @orchid_hq's landing page saw millions of visitors after they went viral. here's how we built it: nizzy wanted zero product screenshots, so we built a custom iMessage clone for the web to show exactly how orchid works.
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Breeje Anadkat · 190 reactions
Tool-workflow tutorial as a thread.
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Laura Vlad · 261 reactions
A named fictional brand turns a tool test into a portfolio piece.
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rico · 547 reactions
Exact values from real practice. Precision earns the save.
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Jo Bird · 266 reactions
Client scene earns the shareable contrast list.
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Raul · 619 reactions
The claim earns attention; the curation earns the bookmark.
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Josh Puckett · 1K reactions
Hyper-specific problem + exact fix. Specificity is the credibility.
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James Martin · 496 reactions
Everyone watches the bottom of the ladder; he looked at the top.
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