The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/04/21

mattstromawn.com

Expansion artifacts

AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.

asc11.com

ASCII art generator

Create ASCII art for websites and marketing from images, video, live cam, and templates.

andrewmurphy.io

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.

thoughtshrapnel.com

The AI adoption spiral

The journey that people go on with any new tool.

microsoft.design

Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design.