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
Ed Yong: Defenders of the prize note that the Nobel committee is bound to the conditions laid out in Alfred Nobel’s will—the document that established the awards. But the will calls for the recognition of “the person”—singular—who has...
I’ve been following Scott Galloway’s work for the last couple of days; reading his excellent blog posts about the collective madness of WeWork and how we should be kinder than our parents, as well as watching his videos on how Amazon’s...
The other evening I got to reading this old rant about and how most companies don’t understand platforms, being far too focused on building short-sighted products instead of the underlying infrastructure that ties it all together....
It’s an evening of clear skies, big hearts, and extremely good Internet. I’m listening to Cabin and working on a project that is suspiciously shaped like a book. As I type, my good friend Trent Reznor is playing the piano in my apartment...
I’ve been going to the gym every day for the past three months and I’m finally starting to enjoy myself. Although yes I’m still technically obese, and I’m taking pictures of my physical progress as I go this time, it’s not really about...
I just finished listening to this episode of the Mystery Show that investigates how tall Jake Gyllenhaal is and it’s outstanding. It’s a dumb mystery but one that I adored following. Also I had no idea how funny Gyllenhaal is.
The other day I was talking to Jules about the 99% Invisible episode she’d written about. In that post, Jules excitedly quotes the episode with Hank Green where he says: [...] there are all these phenomena in human life that are really...
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...