Hugo LiuInterview
Taste researcher, Chief Scientist (Hunch)
Adapted from Hugo Liu's interview on Uses This, published 30 January 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
On the go, I travel with a 11" MacBook Air, and an iPhone.
I write with 05 Pigma Micron pens in Sepia, and doodle with 005 Pigma Micron pens in Blue-Black.
Communication
For word processing I use GMail.
Productivity
I then transfer these items into Things, a super handy app for managing todos, projects, and life goals.
I use Google Spreadsheets to manage my relationships, and to help me make life decisions both big and small - for example, where to live, places to travel, or what to be for halloween.
Coding & Development
My blog lives in a MySQL table, with about a hundred lines of Python to render it.
Design
I use Adobe Illustrator to create website and app wireframes, using a basic palette of Helvetica Nueue, rectangles, and eight shades of gray.
Media
Storage
I use rsync to backup my documents and media to the cloud.
Other
I'm the Chief Scientist at Hunch, a web app that learns about you, then predicts things you'll like, using a massive taste graph.