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
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...
I could be halfway towards LA or Vegas by now. I could be tearing it through a canyon in Yosemite. Instead, it’s midnight and I’m sat on my bike in front of O’s apartment with the engine rattling beneath me. I’m about to walk through...
In July the design systems team at Gusto shipped a beautiful thing. Over the course of three months we tried our best not just to update the brand assets, such as logos, colors, and fonts—we also felt that this was an opportunity to give...
The biggest problem with having your own blog is that it’s pretty difficult to write and publish anything. You likely don’t have a fancy Medium-style interface if you want complete control over every little detail and you’re probably...
If habits define identity, then given the amount of time so many of us devote to reloading Twitter, opening Netflix, checking reddit, et cetera, are most of our identities that of media addict? This essay by Craig Mod about the...
Giving advice about design systems is almost impossible. Every team and codebase is wildly different from one another and what works for one company now might not work for the same company in the near future. I’ve noticed this at Gusto...
I’ve been reading Chip Scanlan’s newsletter for the past couple of weeks now and I adore it. With each issue he looks at the writing process, at what works for him and other popular writers, and then he digs into a few stories. If you’re...
The longer I work on making large web apps, the more I get this feeling, a kind of sixth sense as I’m navigating an interface. It flickers on whenever I stare at a UI for long periods of time, and the more I pay attention to it the...
Garrett Dimon on quitting Google analytics: Some time ago, I removed all the tracking from my personal site, and I haven’t missed it. What started as a whimsical idea that was part performance-based, part referrer spam overload, and part...