Anne HalsallInterview
Interface/UI designer
Adapted from Anne Halsall's interview on Uses This, published 12 March 2010. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
I have two 15" unibody MacBook Pros: a 2.53 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and a 3.08 GHz with 8 GB, an integrated battery, and a matte screen.
(I tried a Magic Mouse and it was broken right out of the box.)
I have a tiny 5" Wacom Graphire tablet which is probably at least eight years old now, but I will never let that thing go.
Communication
I use Adium, which is hands down the best IM client on any platform.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
Design
I'm sadly betrothed to the Adobe CS4 suite for professional projects.
I spend most of my design time in Illustrator these days, which I have come to love in that stockholm syndrome kind of way.
Oddly, I don't use Photoshop for anything.
I use Inform 7's awesome Mac IDE for interactive fiction development.
Media
Storage
I can't say enough good things about DropBox.
Other
I do still use Fireworks for pixel-level optimization.