Mike MonteiroInterview
Designer, director (Mule)
Adapted from Mike Monteiro's interview on Uses This, published 4 July 2013. 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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Oh man, I just got myself a shiny new 13 inch retina MacBook Pro, so I'm still in the honeymoon phase with it.
I spend a lot of time staring at the screen and saying "Wow, that's nice." I also have an iMac at work that's starting to get a little long in the tooth which is probably getting put out to pasture as soon as Apple revs their displays, and I get something to hook up to the MBP.
Communication
Haven't used a feed reader since Twitter launched.
And I get that through Tweetbot, unless I'm on the desktop where I just go to the site.
Productivity
I wrote my entire book in Google Docs (err, Drive) which made everyone very, very nervous.
I love Keynote probably more than anyone, with the possible exception of Tom Coates, but he uses it in very unnatural ways.
And Basecamp to communicate with our clients.
Browser
Coding & Development
Although I've been toying with Editorially lately and it looks very promising.
Design
I use Illustrator when I need to, but never without breaking into a cold sweat as I dread how much time I'll have until it force quits.
(It's still not as good as Freehand was when they killed it.)