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Sayed Essam

Multidisciplinary Product Designer focused on creating memorable digital experiences

Issue #311
Sayed Essam's workspace

About

Sayed Essam (Syd) is a product designer focused on creating. Born and raised in Egypt, he knew that design was his passion from an early age.

He is currently a Senior Product Designer at MoneyHash and is also mentoring other designers adplist.org.

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Gear

22 items
Desk IKEA Bekant Desk Buy
Accessories IKEA Bekant Side Table
Monitor Arm LG Ultrafine 5K Display (on a VIVO monitor arm) Buy
Monitor Baseus Screen LED Bar Buy
Computer MacBook Pro M1 Pro 14’ (Main workhorse, attached with one cable ready to go)
Tablet iPad Pro 12.9’ with Apple Pencil (on a flexible stand from Amazon)
Monitor KRK Rokit 5 Studio Monitor Speakers Buy
Speakers Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 Audio Interface (hidden under the monitor stand) Buy
Accessories Scarlet Studio Mic (on a Rode Mic Arm hidden behind the display)
Monitor ELLOVEN Monitor Stand Buy
Accessories Seagate 12TB External Drive Buy
Desk Mat Woven Desk Mat from Amazon
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys Mini Buy
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3 Buy
Mouse Apple Magic Trackpad Buy
Accessories MagSafe Charger — with aluminum stand from Amazon
Accessories Mahogany Teakwood High Intensity Candle from Bath&Body Works
Accessories IKEA Fake Plant
Accessories Macintosh-style Apple Watch Charger Stand Buy
Chair Cooler Master Ergo L Chair‍ Buy
Accessories IKEA SKADIS Pegboard — x2. I painted them black and hanged all my other tech gadgets and photography needs.‍
Keyboard A big shelf to host all my camera and model cars collections along with some posters.‍

The census

Only 6% of the desks we’ve published have Sayed’s IKEA Skadis Pegboard.

Ranked across all 521 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%
Apple Magic Trackpad 18%
Logitech MX Master 3 9%
IKEA Skadis Pegboard 6%
See top 50 gear items ›

Software

7 apps
Figma — for everything work related and sometimes more (I made my wedding invitation on Figma!)
Cron — for calendar
Arc — browser lately
Spotify — for music since 2014
Lightroom — for photo editing
Semplice — for portfolio and website
Final Cut Pro — for video editing

Interview

4 questions

› What is your favorite item in your workspace?

My Macintosh-style watch charger stand, I’ve searched for a stand for it for 3 years and none looked good or functioned as I wanted it to, till I found this stand which turns the watch into nightstand mode and I can glance at it for the clock and looks like a little retro Macintosh on my desk.‍

› What do you think is the main benefit of remote work?

I think remote work enabled a lot of people (beside giving back a lot of commute time back to them) to do different stuff beside their work that they wouldn’t normally do. Like ever since Covid and I have started to take care of my desk setup and improve it one by one till I reached this setup, and actually started to make content with (and planning to, so this is a sneak peak). Check my Instagram for more.

› What’s next to your desk?

2 Skadis Pegboards from IKEA that I painted black and hanged all my other tech gadgets and photography needs.

› What’s behind your desk?

Coffee corner that hosts all the tools and needs for making coffee. I live in a small apartment so I had to optimize all my work needs into a small accessible space.

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