Gavin Nelson

Product Designer at GitHub working on GitHub Mobile

Issue #136 March 12, 2022

About

Gavin Nelson is is a Product Designer at GitHub working on GitHub Mobile as well as an icon designer focused on crafting app icons for clients in his free time. Check out his recent work and get in touch with him on Twitter or through his website.

Note: This was Gavin’s setup in 2022. He was more recently featured in edition #341 in mid-2023.

Photos

3 images

Gear

12 items

Chair Steelcase Gesture chair Buy

Desk Fully Jarvis Standing Desk Buy

Monitor LG UltraFine 5K Buy

Computer MacBook Pro 16"

Keyboard GMMK Pro keyboard Buy

Mouse Logitech MX Master 3 Buy

Microphone Shure MV7 Buy

Hub / Dock CalDigit TS3 Buy

Desk Mat Grovemade desk mat and desk shelf

Speakers Audioengine A2+ speakers Buy

Accessories Midori MD notebook and Rotring 600 pencil Buy

Software Sketch poster and Ryan Putnam prints

The census

Only 3% of the desks we’ve published have Gavin’s Grovemade Wool Felt Desk Pad.

Ranked across all 516 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%

Logitech MX Master 3 9%

Fully Jarvis Standing Desk 9%

Grovemade Wool Felt Desk Pad 3%

See top 50 gear items ›

Software

3 apps

Figma, Sketch, and Blender for design

Things and Obsidian for keeping my life on track

VS Code and recently Nova for the code

Interview

2 questions

› What is your favorite item in your workspace?

- Physical item/tool: I love what the Grovemade shelf does for my workspace aesthetics and organization.- Digital item/tool: Things hands down. It's easily one of the most carefully crafted apps and as someone who heavily relies on GTD, it's indispensable in my workflow.

› How do you spark creativity?

I love sketching and writing to spark creativity. Quantity > quality for me when it comes to getting the creative energy flowing.