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InDesignSoftware

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Who uses, recommends or left InDesign, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

4 people

Bob Nystrom
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns; previously a game developer at EA.
liked

I typeset the book in InDesign which (aside from general bugginess) was a really enjoyable experience.

His Uses This interview, on the tools behind his game programming book and his Dart work.

2015-01-29·usesthis.com ↗

Jenny Odell
Conceptual artist and writer, author of How to Do Nothing; teaches art at Stanford.
uses

I use InDesign to make books sometimes.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while she was an artist in residence at Facebook.

2017-02-14·usesthis.com ↗

Erik Spiekermann
German type and information designer; founder of MetaDesign and FontShop, and designer of typefaces including FF Meta.
uses

Indesign (I'm pretty confident), TextEdit (I write a lot) and Writer (also for the iPad), Twitter (does that qualify?), FontLab, BitFonter, Glyphs and RoboFont for designing type.

His Uses This interview, on his presses, cameras, bicycles and design software.

2011-12-12·usesthis.com ↗

Who disliked it

David Sirlin
Game designer; lead designer of Street Fighter HD Remix, founder of Sirlin Games (Yomi, Puzzle Strike) and author of Playing to Win.
disliked

InDesign confuses me, so I don't use it.

His Uses This interview, on the Mac, printer and design software behind his tabletop games.

2014-05-22·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.