Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.
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A few more notes about (ugh) AI. I promise I’ll stop at some point but this is basically therapy now and since you aren’t legally obligated to read any further, this is technically your fault. I have two conflicting feelings about AI,...
Making good decisions in a large organization is always impossible. But it’s especially hard when a new technology sweeps through the culture and consumes everyone’s attention. Once a year, every year, a new thing will appear on the...
Here’s a handy new thing coming to a CSS near you: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { text-wrap: balance;} Richard Rutter has the scoop and explains how this bit of CSS will help ensure that titles and large headings don’t break weirdly and leave...
Elizabeth Lopatto wrote this great piece about how junk web design practices are ruining the web; the login forms, the popups, the chatbots, the everything! Our standards are so very low when it comes to web design and Elizabeth points...
Tim Kadlec: The act of spending that time in those feeds still feels like a very deliberate, intentional act. Curating a set of feeds I find interesting and making the time to read them feels like an investment in myself.
When I’m uncertain about my career or my personal life, books have always shown me the way. A dazzling novel about bread or a non-fiction tome all about nuclear physics will never fail to soothe me, even when it feels like my career has...
Here’s Edward Dolnick in his lovely book The Writing of the Gods: The crucial point is that though speaking comes naturally, writing had to be invented. Speech is part of our biological heritage, like crawling and walking. Writing is a...
Building a great product is a matter of two questions: How should we measure progress? And what should we build next? That first question is the most important because how you collect data and what you count as success influences...
Austin Kleon: In my work, problems of output are problems of input. If my work sucks, it’s usually because I’m not being a good enough fan. I need to read, and read voraciously, searching for that thing that’s going to get me back on...
I couldn’t agree more with Chris here when he asks if it’s really necessary to show hundreds of junk fonts in macOS Ventura: That’s 567!!!! Fonts!!!! Automatically installed that you cannot remove or deactivate on macOS Ventura. What in...
We used to write CSS like this: a { color: blue;}a:hover { color: lightblue;} This kinda sucked for a lot of reasons. First, it means that our code is split up and disassociated from itself a bit. Second, because it gets harder to read...
Lucy and I chatted the other day about prototypes, the projects we’re workin’ on, and how to blog on the world wide web. My favorite bit is when Lucy shows the prototype she made for Seacritters!, her upcoming graphic novel about...
Jim Nielsen: That is why owning a domain (and publishing your content there) is like planting a tree: it’s value that starts small and grows. The best time to own a domain and publish your content there was 20 years ago. The second best...
Mark your calendars: next week on Tuesday Feb 7th, I’ll be chatting with Marcin Wichary in a livestream about his book, Shift Happens, which beautifully details the history of keyboards from punch cards and typewriters to the rectangles...
Okay, here’s a great chat with Nadia Asparouhova and Kicks Condor about writing mighty fine hypertext: Someone (I think Eugene Wei?) once tweeted that all Twitter accounts eventually sound like fortune cookies. I don’t want to become a...