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
This is an interesting and honest post by Craig Mod on how his paid membership program faired in 2019. He breaks down his costs and what advice he would give to other writers/artists who are interested in becoming more independent. I...
Paul wrote this lovely piece that riffs on my thoughts about why software is bad and the the cool thing about it? Paul disagrees with me! He argues in part that building great software will always require some degree of communication and...
Although I’ve argued before that software development is suffering from extreme mismanagement, I hadn’t thought much about how the structure of a company plays into the quality of the software; the way tasks are filtered down to...
Jonnie Hallman’s newly redesigned personal site is rather lovely as it’s sort of like a little essay all about him and his work. It’s the perfect introduction to the history of his web design and development career and I might steal a...
I love this story from Eric Meyer about building a website that looks as if it was from the 1900s and almost getting fired in the process: The young’uns in the audience won’t remember this, but to avoid loss of data and services when the...
I love this piece by Steve Klabnik on how to care for an open source community. He writes: ...without someone actively paying attention, it’s only a matter of time before things get unseemly. If you’re looking to help out an open source...
Kyle Chayka on the empty promise of minimalism and our obsession with it all: The iPhone’s function depends on an enormous, complex, ugly superstructure of satellites and undersea cables that certainly are not designed in pristine...
I reckon every good story begins halfway through. One example is the first scene of Uncharted 2: we don’t see our protagonist Nathan Drake at the train station buying his ticket, grabbing a coffee, hopping on the train, finding his seat,...
Anil Dash writing about how Instagram is controlling behavior by limiting the use of hyperlinks: If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing...
About a year ago I saw the trailer for The Birth of a Nation and I was, for whatever reason, thoroughly unimpressed with the pacing and structure of it. The music doesn’t make you scared or anxious or provide any of the emotional oomph...
What does success look like? I asked him in the dim light. A jazz band was playing on the mezzanine behind us and I was slumped at the bar in a half-drunken stupor, moaning triumphantly about everything. I whined about how I’d trained...
Robert McFarlane has written an outstanding piece on the dangers and difficulty of disposing with radioactive waste: Deep in the bedrock of Olkiluoto Island in southwest Finland a tomb is under construction. The tomb is intended to...
Rachel Andrew has written all about her career helping developers learn CSS: As I started my CSS layout journey with a backdrop of people complaining about Netscape 4, I now continue against a backdrop of people whining about IE11. As...
Earlier this week I flew down to a friend’s home in Anaheim for Thanksgiving and, in between home made apple pies and far too much turkey, I found time to update the design of this ol’ place a bit. Now I’m using Klim Type’s Söhne for...
Over on CSS-Tricks, Chris asked a ton of web designers and developers what interested them this year when it comes to building websites and the results are lovely! The overwhelming amount of positivity and charm in these posts reminds me...