Liz DanzicoInterview
Designer, educator, editor
Adapted from Liz Danzico's interview on Uses This, published 6 November 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
At the studio, a Mac Pro 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel with 4 GB of extra memory.
A couple years back, I started using a 30-inch studio display monitor, which I contest has increased productivity, if not overall happiness, exponentially.
All other times, a MacBook Air 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, which I adore when it's in my bag in transit, but less so when it's in use.
Oddly, I don't feel this way about a most recent purchase, the iPad 16GB 3G.
This summer's latest: a Zenith Trans-oceanic Multiband AM/FM Shortwave Radio.
Communication
I use Adium all day long, both at the studio and home.
Productivity
For sketching wireframes, talks, and now some even short documents, Keynote.
Notes
Coding & Development
Ommwriter, for instance, is rather interesting and does a nice job of keeping things simple.
Design
OmniGraffle lost me when they upgraded to version 5 - too complex.
There are some pretty powerful things we can do with Keynote and prototypes now.
Media
Storage
Other
TextExpander for faster responding and helping me remember what I had said better at another time.
While I'm a diehard Google Reader user, I do love what Reeder has done for the iPad.