The workspace journal

Space for your kind of work.

Independent guides to displays, connections and the everyday workspace around them.

Begin with your workspace
A laptop and desktop display showing clock screensavers on a desk
A laptop and desktop display · Workspace illustration. markusspiske · Published 7 September 2018. CC0 via Pixabay (resized and cropped).

A display is part of a place

Think about the work
around the screen.

The document beside the reference. The notebook that stays open. The computer, the cable and a desk that still feels like yours.

Our independent guides bring those parts into the same conversation, so the next choice has a clear purpose.

01 / PURPOSE

Start with a real task.

Picture what you want to keep in view, and what can wait until you need it.

02 / ARRANGEMENT

Keep the parts together.

Give the computer, display, desk and supporting equipment their own place in the plan.

03 / CONTEXT

Read the exact reference.

Keep the model, the document and your next question close enough to compare.

The connection is a path

Follow the picture
back to the computer.

Start at one end of the arrangement and name each piece in between. A cable, dock or adapter deserves a clear role, too.

Keep picture, peripheral data and any charging requirement as distinct questions.

Read the connection guide
Laptop, blank paper and stationery arranged on a wooden desk
A laptop and paper on a wooden desk · Workspace illustration. markusspiske · Published 22 June 2016. CC0 via Pixabay (resized and cropped).

The four useful questions

Begin where you are.

The work.

Make the space answer the tasks you actually do.

The connection.

Give each piece of the equipment path a clear role.

The desk.

Consider the screen and everything around it.

The details.

Keep a specification beside the question it answers.

Keyboard, cup and pencil pot beside a desktop computer
A desktop workspace detail · Workspace illustration. martinvorel_com · Published 19 February 2016. CC0 via Pixabay (resized and cropped).

Leave room for the ordinary things

The desk has
a say in it.

The screen is one part of a place you use every day. Consider the keyboard, the cup, the notes and the things you want to keep within reach.

A simple drawing can make the arrangement easier to discuss before a piece of equipment moves.

Consider the whole desk

The reading list

A little more context.

Explore every guide