Medium's design team made a small but thoughtful change to the favicon in early 2016. When you're drafting a post on Medium, you typically have multiple tabs open—reference material, other articles, your own published work. The favicon change made the draft tab visually distinct so writers could instantly spot which tab held their in-progress work. It's a practical solution to a real friction point in the writing workflow. The decision had a second layer beyond pure functionality. The designer wanted to send a psychological signal to writers themselves. Writing is genuinely hard, and most people never even click "New story." By making the draft tab feel special through the interface itself, the design offered a small boost of recognition—a way of saying your writing matters. The hollow draft icon was deliberately designed to mirror the solid published story icon, creating visual scaffolding that suggested progression from draft to finished piece. The author is asking readers to share examples of other websites or apps that use favicons creatively or usefully. The piece is really about noticing the small design choices that either remove friction from a task or provide emotional reinforcement to users doing difficult things.