The Workstations of Popular Websites

nice post, very cool to see the setting that all these incredibly influential (except for me ) people work in.

Interesting, I’m surprised that many of the graphic and web focused bloggers don’t have Wacom tablets in their workspaces.

Since I’m redesigning my work space, this was great inspiration. Thanks!

Wow, that’s a lot of Macs. I particularly love the Bartelme wallpaper and the Web Designer Wall “Starbucks” workplace…

hehe its like a appple store up there ^^

That is a lot of Macs. Making me think of getting one myself now.

Nice roundup! You forgot my blog

This is one of the coolest posts I’ve seen in a while! I always love looking at other’s spaces. My ideal office would be Walter’s set up in CSS Beauty’s old brick room. Would be sweeeet!

I was expecting a shabby workplace with lots of windows open and desktop full of shortcuts. I am surprised that the places as well as the desktops are so neat. I am just wondering if we could sneak up on them while working, would we get a totally different picture of things .

Different idea for a blog post, I like it. You keep coming up with innovative topics all the time, thats what keeps bringing me here.

MnVn

Go my PC, had to make a stand!

3 things :

1- Is this a sponsored post ? Non seriously because all this gigantic MAC … common … mmh ? Honest ? You can tell, the post is cool anyway ?? No ?? ( )

2- Is it an obligation to be famous to appears on the list ? Because, if not, I can mail you a picture of my workplace !! And I swear to you that it will give a real “cliché” of what can be the amateurism in web design … (i’m a mess … a horrible one … a French mess … I let you imagine)

3- Thanks again for this post, I loved it, refreshing and inspiring as usual !

PS : i’m not a native english speaker, please forgive me

Cool Workstations!!. Thumbs up to Henry of WDL and Chris of spoongraphics.i like your workstation the most=)

WOW!
Me and Toxel have a lot in common! The rest of you are spoiled brats!!!! Hehe

I have to admit, I did tidy things up a bit for this picture of my workspace, but not too much. I normally keep things pretty neat.

Wow, cool workstations, almost everyone in this post use Mac, nice:D

Awesome….Nice to see the variation in the ways some people work.

Gonna See my name Up there some time in the future

Nice post mate.

Wow what a great burglar shopping list Really like some set-ups. Dan Rubin’s set-up is just awesome.

Those are some great set ups! Maybe when I finish pimping my station we can do a round 2?

Wow, i didnt expect this many macs

Mac rules.

Really impressive. Makes me hang my head in shame at my desktop.

Great post! I have always found it works best for me to have a window right behind my screen or near-to. I seem to get a little stir crazy if I can’t look out on nature once-in-a-while when working. Thanks for putting this together. – @bradmccall (twitter)

I must say this post has left me yearning over a second monitor, maybe a 30″ Apple cinema display. Some pretty sweet setups there, a lot of Mac lovin’ with the odd sprinkle of Dell and Toshiba. Great post, love it!

Excellent idea for a post, it was a pleasure to be a part of it! It’s great to where fellow designers spend their days!

nice list man… it seems 2 b apple things only

Nice collection – Loads of Macs out there .

And I’m one of them:
http://www.marcofolio.net/other/taking_the_plunge_buying_a_macbook_pro.html

Guess I need to “re-design” my working station too!

Nice insight, Walter. Some of my favourite blog authors included here.

Ciao for now.

I love Alex Giron’s office! That brick wall is great!

I have the same IKEA desk… it’s awesome…

nice round up… particularly found Dmitry Fadeyev’s Usability Post’s workplace the best because of the kind of work he had to do… and the way his monitor is tilted in result to that…

It seems that they’re is a lot of maniacs… Or probably just for the shot

Cool post !

Nice post, interesting to see how many of them have multiple monitors. Makes my setup look so bad.

Yeah, what nice idea write this post ! Double monitor rules…

My personal favorite is Elliot Jay Stocks. I like how the Mac Book Pro is in the corner and there are not many wires out. Also they music and I’m a musician so that was cool. Nice post!

I love this post. It’s totally unexpected subject matter – sort of like being a fly on the wall, on the other side of cyber space.

Thanks for the peek inside how these sites are built and maintained. Amazing how “small” some of these are behind the scenes, yet appear “big” to their audience. Goes to show the power of putting a business online. “You’re only as big as people think you are.”

I love this post so much, I just love to see people’s workstations.

Thanks for asking me to contribute. There are some really slick workspaces here. I’ll certainly come back to this article when I’m changing mine I think the Starbucks one is amazing

greatly impressive… mostly are mac… where’s the pc? it’s really great to see the working place of the most inspiring designers and developers…

Thanks for the post, very interesting.

Am I to seriously believe that all these designers/developers keep their workstations that clean?

Hey Walter

Awesome post, Im handing mine in to ya today hopefully. My workstation looks just like yours does.

So cool to see where people I know and work with work at. Its also amazing how we are all so lucky that we can take a laptop anywhere in the world and work away happily

So cool!

Looks like a retooling of my workspace is in order.

Thanks for the insight.

Wow, Awesome Post!

First I’d like to ask how u guys managed to get to all of’em ? lol..

Well, I just loved the LCD at PsdVault’s place.. and saw no one uses CRTs now

I wish Smashing Magazine was on the list..

Thats awesome idea/post! Seems the new MBP with the LCD 24″ monitor is a pretty popular choice. I really like seeing the contrast in people work spaces. I think it is interesting how designer’s work/design. Nice post!

Wow, so many Macs. Impressive!

I enjoy these kind of posts! I’m surprised not many people had printers around… I know we’re all mostly web designers, but still. I still print a lot.

Eva Sajdak & Paul Wozniak’s desktop was so nice and clean, and comfy looking!

Nice to see I’m not the only one with 1 horizontal and 1 vertical profile monitor – posted my desk setup back in November – here: http://createsean.com/blog/index.php/blog_createsean/comments/my-home-office/

Wow, so many cubicles. Depressing!

Here’s mine:
http://www.blogabond.com/Photos/PhotoView.aspx?imageID=993

Really it is inspirational how people have set up their offices, hopefully I will be more or less like them in near future.

Very cool to see this. I believe the space you work in is very influential on your creativity and productivity.

I think it would be interesting to see the work spaces of anybody, amateurs included, not just the top bloggers. I bet you would find quite an array of spaces.

Wow, awesome post!

One question.. how can there be so many creatives, and non of them are Lefties!? or did I miss something..

didn’t think left-brained people could be creative.. hahahaha

lol Gabriel Segura, brilliant! love cssmania btw

Hey, that’s a really cool look into everyone’s setup!
But people, STOP with the default desktop backgrounds! Come on, design something..like your logo?

Still a great collection..

Where is the clutter?
I am sure they all cleaned up for the pics!

Where are the left-handed creatives?

Very interesting: they all seem to be right-handed.
I would always put the mouse to the left of my keyboard – even if I just cleaned up the desk

Very nice post! i like to view others work spaces! Lots of Mac’s but I’m more jelious of the dual monitars!!

Nice post! It’s amazing to see how many use more than one screen. I’ve tried dual screens, but to me the additional space used by the second monitor does not outweigh the benefits of two screens, then again I’ve tried this with old school CRT monitors, might be different with LCD screens as they hardly need any desk space. My setup is completely opposite: 2 PC’s and a Mac, all sharing a single screen.

My god, these people’s desks all look the same. Why are they so sterile and conventional?

@Cyberfox

Yeah- I’d like to see what they really look like without the tidying up! I like the way some of them show their iPhone as part of their workstation. They have no pencils, paper, books, folders, but they do have their iPhone ready to go!

Great post! Add some more photos!

Some really nice spaces! Makes me want another monitor a lot!

Heres my new space

http://tomsinclair.co.uk/uploads/home-workspace/IMG_0672_compressed.jpg
http://tomsinclair.co.uk/uploads/home-workspace/IMG_0670_compressed.jpg

Although I’m not a website designer, I do maintain The Story’s Story and keep an eye on Seliger + Associates Grant Writing. You can see my setup in this post about workspace, although I have to admit that some of the people with multiple monitors put mine to shame. Still, the Humanscale keyboard tray is a major plus with my setup.

To all the people wondering where the clutter is.. I was thinking the same! I’ve always worked in a total mess and probably always will. Mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigbold/3301239374/ (and, yes, I do have a popular Web site so it counts, lol).

oh man thats more than nice…
hmmm, most of them are using macs, i wonder why ?! ;P

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I’m encouraged to see that so many of these great designers are working in small spaces – often at home. I feel much less crowded in my little home studio nook now

Great post! I am always curious about other designer’s setups and spaces. For me, the space I work in plays a major role in my creativity. Unfortunately, my space isn’t all that inspiring right now…it needs some work!

Peter, finally an office that looks like someone actually works in it… all the other pics look like they came out of the pages of a catalog…

I’d take a picture of my office also, but you wouldn’t be able to see anything behind all the mess.

These desktops show a creative side. love all thos macs.

That was a clever idea. It was very cool to see some of the places where great websites are born.

I would love to share my office space, Iconiza.com “headquarters” in this picture: http://www.iconiza.com/iconiza-hq.jpg

Walter asked me to submit photos of my workstation for readers.

Warning: I didn’t clear off my desk or plug in my iPhone first! Just a couple of quick pics.

Later in the week, I’ll try and post some photos from my professional office at Above Systems where we have the big guns including a 100 inch multi-touch projection display.

http://www.derekunderwood.com/uncategorized/photos-of-my-home-office-work-area/

Wolfgang’s setup looks pretty neat! I like the wallpaper.

This is interesting!
Quite nice desktop~

Wow, these are beautiful. Wondering of not including tutorial 9 in the list I want to see his workplace too.

Nice. Interesting.
But why are those people and those readers so much MAC-addicted?
If a MAc helps to be more crative – I should overthink my workstation too
I am more than glad with my IBM. But I think all this doesn´t matter. We are all working with the same programs, don´t we?
But anyway. Good post! Thanks.

So great! how about Collis.. mmmmm

Mac and Apple everywhere

I just recently found some on Flickr. You can view them here

A very fun post, thanks for letting me be a part of it… it’s very inspiring finding out what some of most respected bloggers workstations look like….

It’s really interesting to see all those website’s workstations. Thanks for the post!

Awesome.

Brilliant post, really interesting to see everyone elses little workspaces!

lol at the crappy PC setups

this one is nice for real. hmmm i have a better workstation but not a famous website though. lol

That was very cool to see the desks of some very talented designers. I should take a snap shot of mine one day.

I really loved this post and it brought a question to my lips that just won`t go away.

Why is it the trend for us designers to use APPLE?

..personally I am using a PC, but that was more due to early budget reasons and I don’t yet have the time to make the transition. As soon as I have the time I will, but I struggle for a reason than “Apple looks nicer”.

Bonjour

Workstations of “le clubclub” blog

http://www.monsieur-alex.com/vrac/clubclub_workstation.jpg

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This proves you dont always need a high-tech workstation filled with macs to build great sites/blogs.

Walter, love this. I’ll definitely be tweeting this.

Think a visit to ikea is in order

That is awesome. I was actually thinking that some of them would be more extravagant than they were.

I wonder how many of those Mac’s have bootcamp with XP installed. What other way do you all test IE functionality?

Wow! as in Wow gotta try one of those.. not the mac but the setup

Very cool post! Your right, it’s very interesting to see how others work! Great job.

Wow everyone is so clean. I have papers everywhere on my desk.

nice article…

Really Great workstations, hope i will own one later

Really great post. I really like the workstation of chris spooner. very clean..

Very nice blog post. I love checking out other graphic designer’s workstations. My favorite workstation was ‘Usability Posts’ workstation. Super clean and love the monitor setup.

Wow! Interesting!!

Tried to make a Trackback. Is it possible in this Blog?

hahahaha…….great workstation ! buy a mac ? any suggestion ?

Very interesting & inspirational for my future workplace endeavors.

I suppose my workplace was too primitive to be published here =)

OMG, my place are well mess, i need to have a w/s by now. LOL

Thanks for putting this post together.
If you like to look at other peoples workstations, you should definitely look at
http://home.officesnapshots.com/

cheers

Nice Workstations. I should take a picture of my station ^^

And live perhaps well the boys of one times have such computers. respect boys

Very cool. Love how some are so cluttered and other so simple.

Nice to see

Hi everybody!
Can somebody tell me, what’s (white) keybord in most of photos?

drooling all over my keyboard right now…

So cool to see where everyone does there thing!Jacob…dude clean your room LOL

OMG … you can see how nice place they have to do their work.I need to do something wit my room .. hehe ~

amazing!
oh damn clean workspace..love it.

I am always curious about other designer’s setups and spaces. For me, the space I work in plays a major role in my creativity.

Nice post. How long did it take you to get ALL those photos wow, impressive.

For those using multiple machines at one desk I highly recommend a great utility that emulates your mouse and keyboard across your home network. Its called Synergy just google that word you will find the software at sourceforge

It is a life saver! Rock on.

Great collaboration of blogs and locations you have put together here. It must have taken you weeks to get everyone together to do this really impressive.

Great post. It reminds me to tidy my desk. However I know their desks were cleaned 5 minutes before the photo was taken and now feel better.

Yay for InstantShift, and their Ubuntu Desktops! I’m glad I’m not the only web developer/designer that uses linux

One word… Wow!

I would definitely want to design in one of those desks. Great pics on this post! Love it!

cool nice post

How clear desks!!
on my desk, there are over 200 CD’s and DVD’s.
pack of my K850i (bought ~2 years ago) and pack of ADSL modem (bought 4 years ago!).
some English learning books, a pen, some visit cards, and a lot of papers, with a AsiaCell SIM card (bought last year, when i go to Iraq for photographic.). a deodorant, a logitech mouse pack (bought last day) and so on!!

Awesome workstations…

I should take a snap shot of mine one day…

Wow, some really nice looking workstations. I like this post because it gives me an idea of how other freelancers set themselves up for success. Other show and tell areas like this, such as the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool (http://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-workspace-showandtell/) don’t provide any context for the work environment.

I hope to start bringing in some substantial income soon and I tool will put together a workspace that fits me perfectly!

Thanks for the post!

man… my workstation sucks @_@ *frustrared
Nice post by the way =D
I think I might be changing a lot o’ stuff around here
Congratulations for the cool workstations you guys (:

Nobody’s using CRTs! I’m quite surprised, I think for web development they can be still pretty good, especially because of their color rendition… and also for proofing the results, because there are still some users (visitors) with these old large monitors. It really surprised me .

Wow, these are great. Makes me want to keep rearrange my desk!

Very nice post! i like to view others work spaces! Lots of Mac’s but I’m more jelious of the dual monitors!!

great.. there’s no words to say.. Very fantastic..

They’re pretty ordinary !

I now have three monitors running off the one main system though..

http://warcom.com.au/warcom/office.jpg

Cheers,
Paul.

MD of Warcom & Insiteful.

Just showed one of our trainees and she liked David Airey

nice apple.

Awesome…. this is great and pretty good

nice apples and actually great workstartions at all some of them look really good I have to admit

I am really amused to see this much dual monitor’s. . . + a pretty good collection of MAC.

Were is the Smashing Magazine’s workstation?

It is great to see how others work, and comparing to how I work. I wonder how many cleaned up their station before they took the picture, I know I would have to lol.

Great post but there is kind a message like “use Mac if you want to have some awsome blog or job” lol

I wonder Smashing Magazine’s desk.

This is very interesting to see how other people work. I’ve always thought about it and have asked a lot of designers but I’ve never seen a compilation of pictures like you’ve done here.

Thanks for sharing.

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There’s mine.

Nice Collection. these are very beautiful and looks good.

thanks sharing.

Cool I hope I can post mine here….

Cool workstations gotta love the dual and triple monitor settings.

Awesome Collection. Thanks sharing with this informative post.

It’s always a exciting to take a peak on where these great designers create their ideas. What about guys at Envato and Smashing Magazine?

Hey Walter,

I really enjoy those articles where we can see other people’s workstation setups !
In fact, I like them so much that I decided to create a webste dedicated to workstation setups from all around the world !
Thanks for the inspiration !

Feel free to submit your setup !

Workstations of top bloggers would be nice too for the next posts…

very interesting – check out deskography dot com its a potmantuea word of deskpace and photography – jjust loads of cool workspaces – one dude had more than 6 screens
damn that maths is hard

Once you use Photoshop or and Adobe product on a Mac or in my case a Hackintosh you will never go back to using a PC.

Pretty cool, I love to see the workspaces of other people.

my personal fav is spooner’s and david aire!!

Cool post, really interesting to see whre it’s all done!

Hmmm…really nice workstations

Thanks for providing a good information.

Really awesome.Thank you.

they come in all shapes and sizes, wonderful to see the working environment of big name bloggers in the industry. It’s safe to say, it doesn’t matter how your workstation looks, so long as you’re productive and comfortable with the setup it’s all good…and the majority of bloggers don’t attend to visitors most of the time.

Strange and Pleasantly Suprising!!! LOVED the post!!!

=) is cool to see where other peoples work.

I love Nick La’s style: a mac book and some starbucks!

good post

it gives me hope lol….
thanks

LIES! Where are the notepads, the pens, the random scraps of paper, the doodles and drawings and wireframes and starbucks coffee cups?

The yellow stickies with passwords written on them?

I’ve never ONCE in my life met creative people who’s work stations were as organized as what has been shown here. Something fishy is going on.

Very enlightening about how many of those websites come from home offices though.

Really nice post..really loved this, to see hw the workstation of others, that too of famous blogs…

I really like this post!

Makes me wana re-decor my workspace a bit

Bartelme Design’s is definitely the best!

Sweet set ups

Thanks! This is a great collection!

Nice collection. Here’s what my space looks like: http://interactiveblend.com/images/thankyou.jpg

Love the post. It is nice to see how other people/designers work. The amazing thing is that the workplaces seem to be very minimalistic and clean. I always thought that designers are chaotic and have alot of stuff lying around to support their creativity, guess I was wrong though. Thanks for the post and inspiration.