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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Chris Beard has written about all the drama surrounding Microsoft killing off EdgeHTML and he makes a lot of great points: Will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making Google more powerful is risky on...
I love this talk by Mina Markham all about her work on designing systems at Slack and Hillary for America. What I particularly love about this talk though is that Mina digs into what she screwed up along the way and how she fixed it. My...
In The Victorian Internet Tom Standage investigates how the telegraph was developed and how it changed the world. He writes about the laying of the Transatlantic submarine cables, the design of codes and the codebreakers, as well as the...
Today we published something over on CSS-Tricks that I’ve been thinking about over the past year or so. A lot of folks tend to think that front-end development is a problem to be solved with tools, processes, or frameworks. And I...
I’m reading Gary Kamiya’s Cool Gray City of Love at the moment which is an account of the history of San Francisco and it’s architecture, culture, and people. If you’re interested in the history of San Francisco then I’d certainly...
Over on CSS-Tricks I’ve written a bit about how we write CSS today at Gusto and how I’ve been thinking about the whole “functional vs. regular CSS” debate. I apologize profusely in advance for all the nuance because here’s the thing: I...
Nick Cave’s newsletter is called The Red Hand Files – he typically answers questions from his fans in an agony aunt fashion – and in one of the more recent entries he writes about recovering from tragedy: So how do we return to our lives...
Hannu Rajaniemi has made something marvelous; his latest novel Summerland is the best spy thriller I’ve read in years. The story is set in the early 20th century and in an alternative timeline where the British discovered the afterlife...
I fell into web design via books. When I was maybe six or seven I remember reading about polar bears and how they hibernated in a large compendium about all sorts of natural habitats and curiosities ranging from foxes hunting in the...
Jez has just released a Kickstarter campaign for his new book called And Introducing and I’ll let him take it away for the intro: From 'Exuberant Mourner' (Analyze This) to 'Arthritic Cowboy' (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), 'Sad Woman with...
Lately I’ve been jotting down some haphazard notes about the challenges that the Design Systems team at Gusto has encountered along the way and I’m learning a whole bunch about how we should interact with the rest of the organization (a...
I listened to a great episode of Shop Talk Show the other day with Eric Meyer all about how to think like a front-end developer and there’s one bit that caught my attention. It’s the part where Chris asks the question “what is a...
The other day Brad Frost asked how you would make a new class with Sass and he gave two options that look like this: .c-btn {} .c-btn__icon {} /* or */ .c-btn { &__icon {} } The thread that branches off that original tweet is great since...
The flight from Portland to San Francisco is perfect. It’s just the right amount of time for you to admire the romance of flight and the wonder that is unaccosted flight through American airspace without coming to the conclusion that...
Today was a day. It was exhausting and upsetting, and not the useful kind but rather instead the kind that strips you of all of your energy and enthusiasm. The kind that makes you climb back into bed with your tail between your legs. Out...