Robin Rendle

Tourist / type things!

E-bikes are the future we deserve. robinrendle.com/stories/this...

Got my nephew a Switch for Christmas and he keeps calling Mario “Romeo” just to annoy me which is outstanding.

Me trying to avoid feedback when someone destroys my design in crit

One semicolon at a time.

I bet I wouldn’t have become a designer if it wasn’t for CSS3 and HTML5. They came together at *just* the right time and captured everything that was so exciting about publishing and typography on the web. robinrendle.com/notes/the-er...

😂 I love this. “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels”, a look at the fictional interfaces printed on 2×2 sloped bricks. interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

Safety and stability

Me: this icon is bad Me ten mins later: the icon is bad because the system sucks because there’s no UI engineers because management doesn’t do that work because the industry doesn’t advocate for it because web design is seen as a joke because the heat death of the universe…

Last week I found we have four icon libraries so I started fixing that and then I found that our docs are pure chaos so I reorganized them and then I found the branding of the library was bad so fixed that and then and then and then…

If you’re feeling pretty bleh about humanity right now then just go watch The Farthest documentary about the Voyager missions. Holy heckin heck.

The fantasy of Master and Commander isn’t that we get to ride old sailing ships and kill dudes. The real fantasy of that movie is what if your shitty boss wasn’t shitty but was actually super competent and cool as hell and could tie ropes better than you.

I didn’t know Enrique, only shook his hand and said hi briefly once, but man Designer Fund changed my life so utterly, so completely, and I could never say thank you enough. craigmod.com/roden/097/

fruit computers i built 🍓🫐🍊🍋