Designing the Desk
It took a coordinated effort that spanned years—come behind the scenes with our
design team and read the story of how we designed our desk.
Just What Your Home Office Needs
In the end, the first Skynova Desk is designed to be the perfect solution for a single user: someone who works
at their desk day in, day out. It’s designed to have basically no compromises between form and function.
Pivot to Standing
Fast forward a few years. The desk market was shifting—sit-stand adjustable desks were all the rage.
Sean: We immediately started thinking about all the challenges of standing desks: the top moves, the cords move. You have five to ten cords per desk. All of them move up and down and it’s this constantly changing cord spaghetti.
Ken: And sometimes standing desk legs can feel too mechanical. A little orthopedic.
Sean: They look like a device, not a piece of furniture.
Everyone needs to store a lot of things—we’ve been saying this since 2017 when we designed the original desk shelf system— and it’s been true for a long time. In the growth of the standing desk phenomenon, however, the focus on storage was lost.
Ken: If you think of home office desks from previous eras, from classic and iconic to run of the mill, they all had ample storage because one of their basic functions was to hold things. The standing desk as a simple ergonomic commodity eliminated storage. It’s complex to deal with storage on a desk that moves. But we knew we had to solve the storage issue.
We realized our first desk would be a sit-stand adjustable, and we’d make sure it solved the problems in a meaningful way while being something that would inspire your best work.