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.
Latest Posts
Lucy wrote a great piece about the good days: On the good days, everything feels connected—a giant wall of conspiracy string. But on the bad days, every gesture and thought sits in isolation. It’s like I’m looking at the same board, but...
Alberto Manguel in The Library at Night: One of the lost plays of Sophocles is The Loves of Achilles, copies of which must have perished one after another, century after century, destroyed in pillaging and fires or excluded from library...
Patterned is great. It's an iOS light puzzle game with soft piano in the background which makes it the perfect thing to play in bed. I've watched Celine play it the last few nights and it's so dang soothing. (This is an endorsement of...
I’m late to the party here but this week I discovered that iA Writer has a feature they call Style Check which suggests superfluous words to remove: It’s not like any of the existing grammar checkers or functions. There is no AI, it is...
Okay, hear me out: what if I wrote a book in public? And—what if—I wrote about the process of writing/designing/building it each week in a newsletter. I’d have no idea where I was going with it, or what the book could possibly be, and...
A fabulous piece about the videogame box design of Hock Wah Yeo. Phil Salvador writes: When Yeo was making packaging for a game, the way he thought about it, he was giving the game a physical form. Software is “intangible,” he explained,...
Jesse Frederik: I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought: but what is it then, for God’s sake, this whole blockchain thing? And what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve? That’s why I wrote this article. I...
I haven’t read a book all year. During the course of the pandemic I haven’t been able to focus enough to get through anything longer than a blog post or a newsletter. Typically I’ll start reading something, the novelty will wear off, and...
“Let a website be a worry stone,” Ethan wrote last year and I believe that’s so very true. We can treat our personal sites like stress balls and use all that pent up anxiety about the state of the world; we can tidy up the fonts, improve...
James Bridle on museums, archivists, and art: And at some point I had this vision of the great bonfire at the end of time, and how there’s this conveyor belt moving towards it, filled with everything we’ve ever made: every word, every...
Sloan wrote about blogging this morning and so of course I must excitedly reblog this: ...the High Blogging Era might be behind us, but there is still blogging to be done, and it is so easy and rewarding to dip a toe in, start to follow...
Wrote this lil piece about the :has selector: File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in...
The design team at Sentry is hiring a UI engineer in San Francisco (no remote, sadly) and so this is a rare opportunity: if you like design systems, front-end development, and shouting at me when I rant about CSS for too long then please...
Hookshot.app is real good. I picked it up last night and it matches my mental model for how I want to manage windows on my desktop. Throw that app up there, throw this one down there. Get back to work. I think Hookshot is the kind of app...
Over on the Sentry blog I wrote about how we shipped dark mode; what we did, what we struggled with, and ultimately why this was such a great project for our team and our design system: For most front-end codebases, the design of your...