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
Well, this sure is exciting: Syntax, the web dev podcast by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski, is joining the team at Sentry. Over on the Sentry blog, Cramer wrote about why this makes a bunch of sense and how Syntax will grow in the future:...
As good as my eye might be after years of looking at letters, arranging white space is where I always fall short. And you can tell immediately when someone has fantastic white-space skills. It’s like watching a tea ceremony that’s been...
We’re in Sonoma this weekend and I’m sat by the pool with one objective: finish Ray Nayler’s electric, goosebump-inducing novel The Mountain in the Sea. I’ve been sat in the sun for far too long but I can’t stop turning the page, can’t...
During the week I’m now slammed; meetings to meet, Slack threads to be unthreaded, and with endless emails inbetween that are nothing more than a distraction. Suddenly I find that my time has splintered into all these tiny incremental...
There’s been years without building anything worthwhile, years without contribution, empty days and weeks without progress, with no great thing made, no lovely object at the end to show for it. There have been whole months without...
My family had a room that we called the Library, but even back then I knew it was really just our dining room with a few bookshelves around a small table. When I was a kid I would look up at this tower of books though and wonder at all...
Molly White: Recent weeks have drawn a bold underline beneath what has been clear to many for a long time: that those controlling massive amounts of capital and power in our society are not the smartest, or most level-headed, or most...
A few more notes about (ugh) AI. I promise I’ll stop at some point but this is basically therapy now and since you aren’t legally obligated to read any further, this is technically your fault. I have two conflicting feelings about AI,...
Making good decisions in a large organization is always impossible. But it’s especially hard when a new technology sweeps through the culture and consumes everyone’s attention. Once a year, every year, a new thing will appear on the...
Here’s a handy new thing coming to a CSS near you: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { text-wrap: balance;} Richard Rutter has the scoop and explains how this bit of CSS will help ensure that titles and large headings don’t break weirdly and leave...
Elizabeth Lopatto wrote this great piece about how junk web design practices are ruining the web; the login forms, the popups, the chatbots, the everything! Our standards are so very low when it comes to web design and Elizabeth points...
Tim Kadlec: The act of spending that time in those feeds still feels like a very deliberate, intentional act. Curating a set of feeds I find interesting and making the time to read them feels like an investment in myself.
When I’m uncertain about my career or my personal life, books have always shown me the way. A dazzling novel about bread or a non-fiction tome all about nuclear physics will never fail to soothe me, even when it feels like my career has...
Here’s Edward Dolnick in his lovely book The Writing of the Gods: The crucial point is that though speaking comes naturally, writing had to be invented. Speech is part of our biological heritage, like crawling and walking. Writing is a...
Building a great product is a matter of two questions: How should we measure progress? And what should we build next? That first question is the most important because how you collect data and what you count as success influences...