Dan HillInterview
Designer, CEO (Fabrica)
Adapted from Dan Hill's interview on Uses This, published 18 December 2012. 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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Communication
Tweetdeck for posting across multiple accounts.
Productivity
Never Powerpoint; in fact, my presentations are hundreds of increasingly short videos - more like moving photographs, actually (which I suppose is the definition of video anyway, eh) - with one or two big words overlaid.
Alfred for quick file search etc.
Notes
Coding & Development
Given my first degree was Computer Science, I now do almost absolutely no coding: I've fooled around in Processing occasionally, but got nowhere fast.
Design
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 and CS6.
I tend to reach for Photoshop for design work; it reflects my background as a web/graphic designer, I guess.
In recent years, I've been using InDesign for vector drawing as well as layout i.e.
But I find Illustrator doesn't come that naturally to me.
Omnigraffle (though I appear to be using it less and less for anything 'final'; more useful in real-time, in meetings, diagramming with people live, as it's so fast and easy to do basic layout work.
Media
Storage
Kindle I use a fair bit now.
Dropbox to share files across multiple projects, people, friends, as well as a kind of cache for to shuttle things on and off the laptop.
Backblaze for backup (now across four machines; must simplify)
Other
uTorrent to "understand the nature of contemporary media distribution."