Susan LinInterview
Artist, designer, developer (Treehouse)
Adapted from Susan Lin's interview on Uses This, published 21 October 2015. 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 prefer the 13" MacBook Pro Retina.
Things are backed-up on a Seagate 4TB USB 3.0 External HD.
One of the monitors sits on a Grovemade Maple Stand.
The Magic Trackpad helps keep things symmetrical.
I recently upgraded to a GeekDesk at home.
I sit in a Mirra 2 Chair, in Dark Turquoise of course.
Xbox 360 controller for Windows+ 4 others
Somewhere on the desk, there's a wireless Xbox controller and receiver.
I takeover the dining table (an IKEA picnic table where I take most of my instagram shots) and sit in an Aqua Sky Shell Eames Chair when I want to change it up.
My preferred inking pens are Staedtlers.
Comic Pen Nib Holder (Model 40)
Choices were the Tachikawa Comic Pen Nib and extra dark waterproof Deleter ink to try out.
The only eraser I trust are the Pentel Hi-Polymer erasers.
I've been using the same Staedtler Mars Drafting Pencil 0.7mm since freshmen year of college.
Notes are scribbled with a Uniball Jetstream 3 Color Pen and shaded with various colors of Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolor calligraphy pens.
I take photos with a Panasonic DMC-GF7KK.
A Slik tripod has been the most useful purchase I've made lately.
I'll have the iPhone 5S for about a month more.
I'm very happy with my Braun BN0031 for telling time.
Communication
Productivity
For making and presenting talks, I use Keynote.
I prefer Alfred 2 over the native Spotlight search.
I built an RSS page after the decease of Google Reader (RIP).
Browser
Smooth Gestures helps keep things moving fast.
Security
Coding & Development
Design
Like most in my profession, I use Adobe Creative Suite.
Storage
Other
Professionally, I currently work at Treehouse as a designer and spend my after hours as an artist.
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