Amy HoyInterview
Interface designer
Adapted from Amy Hoy's interview on Uses This, published 27 October 2009. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I've got a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and I actually had to open up About This Mac to tell you which one it was.
I use an older Pro keyboard, not the slim profile one - I like clickety keys.
Extended Keyboard II+ 2 others
Until a couple years ago, I used an actual, dirty, beige Apple Extended II keyboard with a USB adapter, but the software got too flakey.
I have both a Kindle and a Kindle 2.
Oh, and I own 3 iPhones.
But I play music with my 3-year-old metal Nano, because it's got a 24-hour battery life and fits in the coin pocket of my jeans.
For thinking, brainstorming, and working on preliminary designs, I use spiral bound notebooks with heavy unlined paper, and Behance's fabulous Dot Grid notebooks.
Communication
Productivity
Not too long ago, my team and I shipped our first software service, Freckle.
I adore The Hit List as a task-tracking app more than I can express.
I hate iCal but there's nothing better.
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Scrivener is the tool that saved my butt while writing JavaScript Performance Rocks!
Design
I have mostly a hate-hate relationship with InDesign, but of course it's better than QuarkXpress.
I do my cheat sheets mostly in Omnigraffle Pro, but I use Illustrator for custom shapes and for tweaking stock illustrations for use in the cheat sheets.
Media
Photoshop Lightroom+ 86 others
Lightroom I actually love (go Adobe?).