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This week on the design review we share our workspace setups: desk, chair, apps, plugins, everything that helps us get r’ done.

 

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Hardware

• Chair
  • Chris – Aeron chair – best chair ever
  • Jon – Hated all my chairs so far
• Desk
  • Jon – Sit/stand desk
  • Chris – Ditto, standing desks are great!
• Decorations
  • Chris
    • Also lots of random doodles and calligraphy.
    • At work, I have also a nice illustration from star wars force awakens
    • Design nerd – I have Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good design posted by my monitor
    • Geeky toys and squeeze balls to play with
  • Jon –  Not much, Pen holder and a picture of my wife
• Sketching
  • Jon
    • Dislike really nice note books, always feel nervous about what I put in there
    • Printer paper
    • Whiteboard
    • Whiteboard with wheels
    • Post its
    • Rectangle postits
    • Anything that I can draw on
  • Chris – Ditto + sometimes even the ipad pro!!!!!
• Pens
  • Jon
    • Mechanical pencil
    • Awesome Pen from Daiso Japan (Blue, Black, Red, Mech Pencil, all in one)
    • Highlighters
    • Some nice ink pens
  • Chris
    • Sharpies
    • Calligraphy pens
    • Uniball pens
    • Mechanical pencils
    • Dry erase markers
• Computer
  • Jon: MacbookPro, Cinema Displays
  • Chris: MacbookPro and 2 extra displays
• Accessories
  • Jon – Apple Magic Keyboard & Mouse
    • Gaming mouse with weights
  • Chris – I’m a keyboard/mouse person; don’t like drawing tablets that much
• Headphones
  • AudioTechinica
  • Just those plain old apple earbuds; i have airpods coming
• Snacks
  • Jon
    • Water Bottle
    • Trailmix
    • Almonds
  • Chris 
    • Fruit!
    • Dark Chocolate
    • La Croix!
    • We always tend to have lots of chocolate around (German stuff) or the real Haribo gummi bears.
    • COFFEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Podcasting stuffs
  • Jon
    • Yeti – Black out edition
    • Pop/wind Screen
    • Suspension Arm
    • Audacity
    • Levalator
  • Chris – Samson Meteor Mic
• Time telling device
  • Jon- Cheap Casio FTW
  • Chris – Apple watch and my iPhone

Software

• Apps
  • Chris
    • Sketch
    • Adobe CS
    • Other usual company stuff
  • Jon
    • Sketch
    • Atom Editor
    • Helium
    • GIF Brew
    • LiteIcon
    • FormatMatch
• Plugins
  • Jon
    • Color Contrast Analyzer for Sketch
      • https://github.com/getflourish/Sketch-Color-Contrast-Analyser
    • Content Generator for Sketch
      • https://github.com/timuric/Content-generator-sketch-plugin
    • Sketch-Quick-Presentation
      • https://github.com/timothywhalin/Sketch-Quick-Presentation
    • Spell Check Whole Page
      • https://github.com/ethology-co/sketch-spellcheck-all-layers
    • Craft
      • https://www.invisionapp.com/craft

• Taskbar apps
  • Jon
    • Next Meeting
    • Spectacle
    • Space in your Dock
    • Flux
• Browser plugins
  • Jon
    • Capture Page
    • AdBlock
    • Buffer
• Productivity
  • Slack
• Time management
  • Jon
    • Omni Focus
      • Mac
      • iPhone 
  • Chris
    • timing cube (Pomodoro technique)
    • Postits on a physical scrum board that i made for myself
• Passwords
  • Jon – Dashlane
• Music
  • Spotify
  • Me too, spotify. Sometimes my apple music library
• Writing
  • Chris
    • Sometimes medium, but it’s too hipster for me and I don’t like ranting about technology
    • Notes.app (esp. on the ipad pro)
    • My wordpress blog – ydsgn.wordpress.com
  • Jon – Bookmark Link to create new google doc https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/create
• Prototyping
  • Jon
    • Principle
    • Invision
    • Webflow
  • Chris – Espresso editor
• Sharing designs
  • Jon – Invision
  • Chris – Meetings, meetings, and more meetings

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