No. 311 · June 14, 2023

Sayed Essam

Multidisciplinary Product Designer focused on creating memorable digital experiences

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.

Follow Sayed on Twitter, Twitter and Instagram.

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.

Sayed’s gear

22 items.

On the desk22

Desk IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk Shop
Accessories IKEA Bekant Side Table
Monitor Arm LG Ultrafine 5K Display (on a VIVO monitor arm) Shop
Monitor Baseus Screen LED Bar Shop
Computer MacBook Pro M1 Pro 14’ (Main workhorse, attached with one cable ready to go) On 64% of the desks we’ve published
Tablet iPad Pro 12.9’ with Apple Pencil (on a flexible stand from Amazon)
Monitor KRK Rokit 5 Studio Monitor Speakers Shop
Speakers Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 Audio Interface (hidden under the monitor stand) Shop
Accessories Scarlet Studio Mic (on a Rode Mic Arm hidden behind the display)
Monitor ELLOVEN Monitor Stand Shop
Accessories Seagate 12TB External Drive Shop
Desk Mat Woven Desk Mat from Amazon
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys Mini Shop
Mouse Logitech MX Master 3 Shop
Mouse Apple Magic Trackpad Shop On 19% of the desks we’ve published
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 Shop
Chair Cooler Master Ergo L Chair‍ Shop
Accessories IKEA SKADIS Pegboard
x2. I painted them black and hanged all my other tech gadgets and photography needs.‍
Accessories A big shelf to host all my camera and model cars collections along with some posters.‍

On the screen7 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