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
Rach Smith on why we should be more careful when we use the phrase ‘imposter syndrome’: When I see my wildly successful, senior developer peers talk publicly about how they deal with imposter syndrome I can see the intent behind it. They...
This post about the workplace and creating a sick system is outstanding and I’ve been thinking about it all week. I can’t seem to find out anything about who wrote this but they argue that if you want to keep employees working for you...
Paul Ford on becoming a manager at Postlight, the agency he cofounded: There is no true metric of success, not even profits. When I was a writer and a piece was published I could see the tweets, and sometimes the traffic metrics. I could...
Tim Maly compares the rampant and illogical fear of the emergence of AI with the real threat of corporations: What if the private pursuit of profit was—for a long time—proximate to improving the lot of humans but not identical to it?...
There’s a wonderful quote by Aza Raskin, although I’ve forgotten where he said it now, but I think it about all the time. He argued that: Design is not about learning to think outside the box, it’s about finding the right box to think...
I love this piece by Dave Rupert on videogames and the art of kindness. He quotes a recent interview by Hideo Kojima: Most of your tools in action games are sticks. You punch or you shoot or you kick. The communication is always through...
I’ve been writing a semi-weekly newsletter called Adventures in Typography for a couple of years now and it has always bothered me that I didn’t own the archive of all that writing. I don’t like the idea that I’m dependent on anyone...
We have to start looking at performance and accessibility as being the baseline of web development work, instead of nice to have features that we can tack onto a project later. So I ranted my heart out the other day for CSS-Tricks and I...
Someone asked a group of engineers in our Slack channel this question the other day and I spent a whole bunch of time thinking about it. What do I wish I had known about engineering before I had started? What would have helped me the...
I’ve been a big fan of Matthew Ström’s blog lately and his latest piece on the management strategy that saved Apollo 11 is likewise excellent. Matthew writes: In today’s companies, decisions are made at the highest level; by the board,...
Craig Mod has some pretty interesting thoughts on why software should be lightning fast. One example he makes is this: Sublime Text has — in my experience — only gotten faster. I love software that does this: Software that unbloats over...
Not only is today my birthday but it also marks the launch of the Gusto brand refresh: we’ve shipped a new website and we’ve redesigned the Gusto web app experience that lets hundreds of thousands of companies run payroll each month. I...
The first question I ask myself whenever anyone assigns me a project is this: what is the real project though? For some completely idiotic reason I can never seem to work on a project unless I feel like I’m doing something punk and...
I’m hurtling through Northern California up to Oregon. I want to see if I can travel alone out here and I have everything I need; a backpack, a motorcycle, a couple of t-shirts, a book. But do I have the confidence to charm my way...
Not only is Vulf Sans by OhNo Type Co a wonderful contribution to my growing list of typefaces that I need to use in a project soon, it also has perhaps the best ad from any type foundry I’ve ever seen. Originally designed for Jack...