Elana SchlenkerInterview
Graphic designer, art director
Adapted from Elana Schlenker's interview on Uses This, published 23 July 2019. 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 have an iPhone X, which I bought when I upgraded to my MacBook - both the newest options from Apple at the time and yet they don't have compatible cords/ports.
Around the house we also have a couple Sonos Play speakers, which I love.
Communication
Slack when a client makes me.
Wordpress for my own site CMS and usually for clients, too.
I also do a lot of video conferencing, and a client turned me onto Zoom.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Design
Media
Storage
(Why is Google and Gmail search so good and Google Drive search so awful?) I actually work entirely off Dropbox - a legacy of when I was actively using my two computers, but it's also nice piece of mind to have everything backed up there and if I'm ever traveling or away from my desk I can still pop files over to people from my phone.