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Remedial Design: Tidy Desk's Decluttering Add-On Storage Objects

By Rain Noe - October 24, 2025

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I think desks without drawers are dumb, but the rise of sit-stand desks and aesthetic trends mean the market is awash with slabs-on-legs. The lack of storage space eventually becomes a problem, so companies start designing remedial storage objects, extra things for you to buy and tack onto your desk.

This series of remedial objects is by a company called Tidy Desk. Their "Desk Dock System" is aimed at the minimalist who cannot tolerate the sight of cables. Thus their Invisible Laptop Dock, which has you leave your laptop out of sight beneath the desk (though still cabled to your screen).

The Dock is just two plastic brackets.

The "system" also includes charging docks for AirPods, Apple Watches and external hard drives.

The promise? A clutter-free desk (at a cost of $35 to $39 per docking object).

Surely drawers will make a comeback at some point?

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Zach W

6 months ago

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The before-and-after picture is stupid.
Magically the coffee cup, cereal bowl, tape, can of soda, headphones, car keys, wallet, notebook, banana peel and 7 hard drives all disappear by mounting the laptop and airpods underneath....

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Jason Pokines

6 months ago

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I (do and) don't understand why the standard solution is to make a desk that rises instead of just building a taller, stationary desk paired with a barstool-height chair. You'd have so much room for storage under a bar-height desk, and no moving parts!

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  I tried that setup for a year or so, one real problem is the lack of good barstool-high office chairs.... Also I'm 185cm tall, so a maxed out adjustable desk is hard to keep from wobbling a little when typing (I ended up using some guylines). All in all, I'd rather have an Aeron and raise/lower.
  
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