With the assumption this means working online (I'm also building products online). I'd love to do something to do with traveling, but what a comment in 2020 ha!
Figma for media, UI, wireframes. Photoshop for stitching and refining screenshots for One Page Love.
Mostly 90s punk rock or metal. It I'm really feeling it black metal. But if I'm writing/coding DNB is better with the lack of lyrics but same tempo.
Inter by Rasmus Andersson. (previously: Sofia Pro, before that: Proxima Nova)
Top 3 films: Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko. Book: Anything you want by Derek Sivers
#EB3656 - the red behind the One Page Love and Email Love websites.
Website for a surf school in maybe 2004 for R500 ($30)
When you have flow, don't stop. Or take it 1 pixel at a time.
No design school. My journey is MS Paint to Photoshop to Figma all self-taught.
Figma is a revelation for me for what I've seen GPT-3 do on some Twitter demos is mind-blowing.
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Try replicate other good designers work (privately) and learn what it took. And probably DOUBLE the padding!
Too much time spent debating tools and not being creative, experimenting, taking risks, being vulnerable, sharing etc. - I guess remember we are forever students and everyone out there is an equal human being, could be a good start :)