Tristan Green
Photographer and Creator
Single Monitor
One screen and nothing more, from people who tried running several.
Thomas Christensen
Head of Product at Typefully
Rachel How
Designer and YouTuber. Video Lead at Mobbin.
Yann-Edern Gillet
Designer at Linear
Gavin Nelson
Designer at OpenAI
Matt D. Smith
Designer and the Founder of Shift Nudge
Oksana Popovichenko
Ukrainian software engineer based in Toulouse, France
Maxime Heckel
Frontend Software Engineer based in New York City
Tiancheng Luo
Tech and Lifestyle Creator and Product Designer
Tom Snyder
Marketer and Entrepreneur based in Austin, TX
Soundharya Muthukrishnan
Designer based in Brooklyn, New York
Gannon Breslin
Growth Marketer, Media Strategist, and Serial Entrepreneur based in Newport Beach, CA
Kenneth Gudz
Retired Dentist in South Carolina, USA
Viktor Vlahek (Ekaeoq)
Independent Watchmaker and Programmer from Croatia
Brett Jackson
Designer and Owner of Sukoya Design
Jacob Titus
Artist, Photographer, and Creative Director based in South Bend, Indiana
Spencer Scott Pugh
Tech Creator, Writer, and Digital Media Strategist based in Virginia
Faizur Rehman
Designer, Creator & Solopreneur based in Prague
Artyum Grebenyuk
Founder of AGR Studio
Jorge Powell
Full-time Content Creator based in the UK
Helin Kıl
Senior Product Designer based in Turkey
Gunnar Sigurdarson
Senior Product Designer in Copenhagen, Denmark
Nubelson Fernandes
Content Creator and Software Engineer based in Lisbon, Portugal
Zineddine Benhaya
Graphic Designer from Turkey
Arek Kajda
Independent 3D Illustrator and Designer from Kassel, Germany
Luboš Volkov
Designer from Prague, Czechia
Shea Cohen
Content Creator and Freelance Designer living in Los Angeles
Giuseppe Di Rienzo
Content Creator and Product Photographer from Italy
Matt Plays
Designer and Creative Director based in New England
Mattia Giannattasio
Italian Tech Content Creator, Digital Designer, and Filmmaker
Jasper Vermeulen
Agency Founder living in Belgium
Jon Rundle
Principal Product Designer at Shopify living in Canada
Dave Crow
Product Designer living just south of Salt Lake City, Utah
Leo Keller
Filmmaker, Video creator, and Editor specializing in short-form videos on content creation and technology
Ollie Hooper
Freelance 3D Artist and Motion Designer from Edinburgh, Scotland
Tim Forkin
Creative from Detroit, MI
Monsieur Pixel
French tech content creator specializing in videos, photography, and digital products
Subham Bhattacharjee
Full-Stack Software Engineer living in Bengaluru, India
Gannon Nordberg
Helps DTC brands turn idle website customers into paying customers
Marijana Pavlinić
Designer & Illustrator from Croatia
Niclas Ernst
Designer from Berlin, Germany
Brett Williams
Founder of Designjoy, a $1M one-man design agency
Carlos Cuesta
Front-End Engineer based in Barcelona
Mateus Almeida
Content Creator and Social Media Manager based in Austria
Charlie Brown
UI/UX designer from the UK
Gavin Nelson
Product & Icon Designer
Nadia Sotnikova
Nadia Sotnikova is an Artist and Digital Creator
Andrea Contino
Andrea Contino is the Head of Communications for Red Bull Italy
Aaron Gilmore
Designer and developer based in Ireland
Rachel How
Independent Product Designer
Mariana Castilho
Brazilian Product Designer who is obsessed with details
Robert Bye
Product Manager at Figma
Kevin Bhagat
Senior Product Designer and digital creator based in Denver, Colorado
Jose Munoz
Lead Product Designer at BOLD working on MyPerfectResume.com
Aaron Marquez
Product & Visual Designer, Founder of Legacy Studio
Katie Langerman
Systems Designer at GitHub and co-organizer of Ladies that UX Boston
Sait Alanyali
Product Designer & Founder, PLA Concept
Aaron Ng
Building avatar expression tools as the founder of Hyper
David Heinemeier Hansson
Ruby on Rails creator, best-selling author, and cofounder of Basecamp & HEY
Andy Cooke
Creative Director and Head of Design at BBH London
Polina Pompliano
Founder and Author of The Profile, where she studies the world's most interesting people
Tom Hitchins
Content Creator from the United Kingdom
Kyle Mills Hall
Digital & physical product designer, company builder and music maker from Southeast Texas
Pirijan Ketheswaran
Designer and engineer trying to make software that makes your day better
Ben Bradbury
Head of Content Production at Workweek
Charlota Blunárová
Independent designer and co-founder of WE3
Mike Smith
Co-Founder and Art Director of Smith & Diction, a branding and design studio in Philadelphia, PA
Charles Patterson
Product Designer, NFT artist, and GIF maker
Ian Zelbo
20 year old freelance 3D artist
Stuart Regan
Product Designer at Raycast
Joey Banks
Senior Product Designer at Twitter, working on Design Systems
Oliur
Designer and Creator based in the UK
Adam Elmore
Host of aws.fm — a live audio show and podcast about AWS
Molly Mielke
Product designer, writer, UCLA TFT digital media student, and Kleiner Perkins design fellow
Stefan Vetter
Founder at Friendly
Kristof Morlion
Product manager at Influo
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By the numbers
76
setups analyzed
92%
on Apple
Herman Miller Aeron
top chair
Figma
top app
Monitor Apple Studio Display
25 of 76 shop ›
Computer MacBook Pro
46 of 76 shop ›
Chair Herman Miller Aeron
7 of 76 shop ›
Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard
21 of 76 shop ›
Mouse Apple Magic Trackpad
17 of 76 shop ›
Desk Autonomous SmartDesk
5 of 76 shop ›
Headphones Apple AirPods Pro
13 of 76 shop ›
Webcam Logitech Brio
2 of 76 shop ›
Lighting BenQ ScreenBar Halo
4 of 76 shop ›
Speakers Apple HomePod mini
3 of 76 shop ›
Top apps
Figma 19Notion 18Slack 12Linear 6Cursor 6Apple Notes 6
Also
36% use a standing desk · 9% run multiple monitors · 20% use a mechanical keyboard · 9% use a monitor arm
Need help choosing?
FAQ
- What monitor is most common in single-monitor setups?
- The Apple Studio Display — it appears in 25 of the 76 single-monitor setups on Workspaces.
- What chair shows up most in single-monitor setups?
- The Herman Miller Aeron, seen in 7 of 76 setups.
- What keyboard is most popular in single-monitor setups?
- The Apple Magic Keyboard, in 21 of 76 setups.
- What apps show up most in single-monitor setups?
- Figma, Notion, Slack lead — Figma shows up in 19 of the 34 setups that shared their software.
- How many single-monitor setups include a standing desk?
- About 36% of the single-monitor setups on Workspaces include a standing desk.
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