This Is My Setup

22 June, 2011
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This Is My Setup

I am one of two Web/UX Designers from Hillsong Church. Between the two of us we manage most of the content on our numerous (around 35) sites, design new sites and design/manage email campaigns as well.

At home, I'm using a 27" inch iMac, 2.8Ghz Intel Core i5 and 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 while at work I'm using a 21" inch hand-me-down iMac, running a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo & 4GB 66 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
I have an iPad 2 which I use more for leisure than business, but not exclusively. And, of course, I have an iPhone 4 which is my lifeline. I don't know how people can manage without one.
I prefer to use Moleskine notebooks, hard cover & blank pages, and 0.3 Artline pens. Any thinner is to fiddly, and thicker is to cumbersome.

For my design work, it's all about Adobe CS5. Photoshop is where I spend a lot of my time, with the occasional need for Illustrator & InDesign.

To build emails from the ground up, I usually use Dreamweaver. It's probably cheating a little bit, but it's what I started learning on and I am yet to find something that suits me better.

My best friends when styling & building websites are Firebug (of course!) & Coda. Another little add-on which I use a bit is Measure It.

I'm using Sparrow for both my email clients, home & work. I love the design, and apparently the new Mail client in OS X Lion will be very, very similar... so I might make the switch back to Apple Mail.

I love Evernote for any note taking I require, as it syncs across all my platforms. Dropbox acts as a life saver on a regular basis as well! Very cool. Flow is what I use for project management and organizing my work, and wunderlist is my personal organizer for tasks.
Blogs are easiest to read on Reeder, and again it works well across all platforms. Syncing & design are flawless.

And they are probably my most commonly used weapons in the war on the web.

I'd love to hear what you use, or if you have some improvements on my setup, let me know below in the comments.

Please note: I took this idea from http://usesthis.comusesthis.com. Check it out for more setups from some incredible people...