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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I’m sat in my kitchen listening to President Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis and absolutely not crying: We have to translate our passion and our causes into laws [...] like John we have to fight even harder for the most powerful tool we...
For my birthday I played a game with some pals where, via Discord, we streamed one of us opening up Google Maps and walking to highschool via street view. It was extremely adorable and we started telling each other stories about these...
John Lewis wrote this essay to be read on the day of his funeral: When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to...
It wasn’t just attacking our bodies. Instead, the pandemic had found a weakness in the unbreakable social bonds that we share with one another. Our need to hold someone, to hug them, to be close to another person, anyone, even a...
This new ebook-esque Gameboy-cartridge playin’ synthesizer called Analogue Pocket looks nifty. I like the design of the site here because it squares up neatly with my theory that the best websites are in fact secret essays. And I also...
I somehow stumbled upon a piece this morning called Mourning a Patriot Whose Politics You Hate by Jon Lovett. It’s written just after the death of Senator John McCain in August of 2018 and it’s about how although Jon disagrees with...
I thought I understood racist housing policy in America. I knew about redlining and I knew about how freeways were used to cut portions of cities into ghettos. But I didn’t fully understand the sheer overwhelming scale of segregation or...
Sometimes I worry that I don’t have the intellectual or creative capacity for design. I guess I’ve spent enough time working as a designer at this point that I can tell if something is good or not. When it’s bad I get uncomfortable and I...
By some cruel fate and in a long running conspiracy involving secret foreign governments and spies, not to mention the tens of millions of dollars of shady private funding that has been poured into this network of deception...something...
A while ago, Dora wrote about conducting user interviews: You have to stop adding your own voice and take to the topic. For example, don’t ask “What do you like about A?” or “What do you not like about A?” Instead, ask “What do you think...
Chris wrote about the analytics that matter earlier this month: I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other...
Good morning! One small tip for your Monday morning typographic perambulations: I think we should always make headings darker than the body text. It’s a small change but it has a significant impact on longer chunks of text and is...
I made this silly thing yesterday after I got back from a walk and was feeling rage beyond words: See the Pen Wear a mask animation by Robin Rendle (@robinrendle) on CodePen. I’ll be sure to write about how I made it in the CSS-Tricks...
Here’s a smart idea from Jonnie Hallman: adding a reply link at the end of an entry in an RSS feed. Just as Jonnie mentions there, some folks reach out with smart ideas via email to some notes that I have as well. But I should really...
Anne Trubek, writing in her excellent newsletter, Notes From A Small Press, has some thoughts about how writing a book isn’t really the point for many authors. Instead, they’re all attracted to the prestige of publishing and its many...