The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed straight at millennials, and has actually been demolished by millennials in impressive volumes. While it lugs a ten-year warranty (the longest of any Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not always a trusted indication of the expected helpful life of the lifting columns. But for the cost, the StandDesk is a terrific lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. In spite of its security problems this is a far much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant might ever before wish to be, and a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide classification of Chinese-made desks that is swaying clients from both its more affordable and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building, Arrangement, and also Gadgets

Building the desk is quite direct if you adhere to the comprehensive instructions. All of the screws, screws, washing machines, and also springtime washing machines can be found in separate bags that are marked with their destination: tabletop, framework, and spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for attaching all of the bolts into the frame, or, pop in a hex little bit right into your power device– simply beware not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a high quality finish to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are fastened to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up likewise includes height-adjustable turning equipments to stabilize the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was really handy for the carpeted home office floor. I’m additionally utilizing a floor mat to shield the carpet from chair wheel damage at sitting height, and also press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller deserved the financial investment. The buttons are all variable stress configured, implying the backwards and forwards arrows will certainly adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly readjust the height by about 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for two secs. The memory buttons are comparable in layout: push to remember the elevation setup, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to save a brand-new height value. I’m using button 1 for my sitting placement as well as switch 4 for my standing placement, which gives me 2 and also 3 for anything I could require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I have actually been using the new desk for a few weeks as well as have made a note of my preliminary impacts:

The electric motors are quiet but can be heard in the next room over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to totally shift from resting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (particularly this LX design), triggering the desk to obtain a little rough when I shift my weight against the key-board. In knowledge, I must have purchased the bar upgrade for my desk after determining the weight of my screens. If you intend to do a double monitor arrangement, obtain the crossbar.

Since gravity compresses the discs in a human back, I require to raise the desk greater in the early morning as well as reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is definitely vital for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are visualized below.

Efficiency

Despite any issues I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, practically every one of those concerns gotten rid of as soon as I in fact got down to using this point.

Although I didn’t believe it was even feasible, the StandDesk somehow handles to be a lot more steady than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing elevations. The majority of days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall surface; not always because it’s that unsteady, but just because I desire as much stability as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even additionally, showing to be just as constant on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar enhancement, which they declare includes a lot more stability when acquired as a part of the plan deal.When it pertains to weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 pounds of weight ability.

I have actually been making use of the desk for about 3 weeks now for day-to-day job (as well as adhering to standing desk finest methods), whether it’s typing out evaluations like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop periodically. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the surface on top of the desk still feels equally as smooth and glossy as the day I opened it regardless of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and also several clean downs with a rag.

I never deliberately try to dent any workdesks too hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a collection of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without also numerous visible indications of damage.

When I gauged the noise result of the workdesk while it increased from a resting placement to standing as well as back again, it was by much the quietest we have actually evaluated. I could barely get it to make greater than concerning 9.5 dB of sound, so if your most significant issue is the whirr of your motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, usually I do not include much concerning the customer care assistance of any given firm, only due to the fact that I really feel that as a whole if a product works the way its meant to, I shouldn’t ever have a reason to call them in the first place. And while I desire I might say that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t finish this testimonial without mentioning the numerous, seemingly countless troubles I came across trying to get my desk created.

For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any kind of memory mobile phone consisted of initially, which implied I had no way of actually managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk about this issue, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology and also a pledge that a new one would be shipped out soon.

Standdesk review handset

The source of all our issues …
Regarding four days later a mobile showed up in the mail. The phone originally switched on, but it wasn’t long before I noticed that none of the programmable switches functioned, nor did the down switch, but also for some reason the “memory” switch took care of the down feature simply fine. I spoke to the firm once more, and also they excused the mixup and said they would certainly have a new panel and control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my new panel as well as control box arrived. Once I installed them both the desk lastly began working the means it was meant to, but not after nearly a month of waiting as well as to and fro with a company that couldn’t remember to ship a core part of their item inside the exact same box from the get-go.

Points to Consider

In spite of its bankable functions, this stand workdesk likewise has its very own downsides. Considering that no singular stand desk can catch all of the attributes that you may require, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as requirement

Not having a maintaining bar is certainly not a deal-breaker, particularly thinking about several of our various other favorite workdesks such as the Totally Jarvis also don’t have one. This workdesk does have one if you want, however it is a paid add-on (more on this later too).

The bar is seen by some as a barrier, making it harder to position your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they offer included stability, usually critical when desks are totally expanded.

We have not read any issues of the stability of this desk, so we don’t think its something to really be worried regarding, although if you really wanted a workdesk with a crossbar then we recommend you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Additionally, StandDesk does provide a separate add-on crossbar that you can contribute to the desk on your own, just for an extra $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing desk is one of the most important elements of these workdesks. Without a steady workdesk you’ll discover it hard to focus, which can cause you becoming less thinking about using the desk at standing elevation. To get the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to enjoy when using the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the very first workdesk that I have tested with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my security tests into two areas. Both examinations will include the normal front to back rocking test as well as an entrusted to ideal wobble. The very first will lack the cross assistance as well as the second will be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co says that the addition of the cross support can boost stability by up to 15%. I have no idea how they thought of that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a different circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I checked that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the shaking motion misbehaved. Yet factor it would certainly influence your work.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Adding the cross support does not impact the rocking activity. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a rocking motion at 36″. By 41″ the shaking activity was bad.

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross support to the StandDesk improved the wobble activity for reduced heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion really did not start till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement became negative.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely crucial with flexible standing desks to fully tighten all hardware. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the activity experienced when encompassed standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is especially true with a workdesk structure that includes 32 bolts, there are far too many points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve evaluated in our labs, we need to narrow our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktop computers, as the stability just isn’t there for a huge mass elevated high off the ground. American-made desks will be better fit to these applications, and also for a fairly obvious reason. Virtually all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German companies that designed this sector, as well as their ordinary people are a lot taller than the ordinary Oriental customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a long time ago. And they have far more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, as well as large experience making standing desk bases, needless to say.

However if you’re not too high, do not have an extreme quantity of heavy devices on your desktop computer, and do not require also wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you good value.

All that could transform with Yu’s assured StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to launch at some point in the future. Originally we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to materialize, and also Yu states he’s had trouble getting the product high quality he needs out of a number of Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted dealing with. The new layout is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to assemble as well as have a heftier crossbar layout, among other improvements. He says the brand-new base will be provided in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” setup, reducing our worry concerning side-load emphasizing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before pertains to market we’ll upgrade you here. However we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most current news on the business is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office and has actually moved it to accompany all its other employees in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing workdesk with impressive performance has actually been introduce via the brand-new joint endeavor in between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing workdesk. While restricted in size and shade options, it has actually taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the best standing workdesk under $400.

The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and has been demolished by millennials in excellent quantities. While it carries a ten-year guarantee (the longest of any Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a trustworthy indicator of the anticipated beneficial life of the lifting columns. But for the cost, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability issues this is a far better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, as well as a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining customers from both its more affordable and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Arrangement, and also Gizmos

Developing the desk is pretty simple if you follow the thorough instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, as well as springtime washers come in separate bags that are marked with their destination: table top, frame, as well as spares. There’s an included hex tool for attaching every one of the bolts right into the structure, or, pop in a hex bit into your power tool– simply take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a top quality finish to them with rounded edges to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are fastened to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly additionally consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was really helpful for the carpeted office floor. I’m additionally utilizing a flooring mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damages at sitting height, and also press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure set, meaning the up and down arrows will certainly readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continuously change the elevation by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory buttons are comparable in layout: press to remember the elevation setup, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to save a brand-new height worth. I’m using button 1 for my resting position as well as button 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I have actually been utilizing the brand-new workdesk for a few weeks and also have actually listed my initial perceptions:

The electric motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the following area over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to fully shift from resting to standing based on my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side check arm (specifically this LX version), causing the desk to obtain a little rocky when I move my weight against the keyboard. In knowledge, I should have purchased the bar upgrade for my desk after establishing the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a double screen setup, obtain the bar.

Since gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I require to raise the desk higher in the morning and also reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is absolutely necessary for long duration standing. I acquired an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are pictured below.

Performance

Despite any type of troubles I may have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter design, pretty much every one of those worries removed when I in fact got down to using this thing.

Although I really did not believe it was even feasible, the StandDesk somehow handles to be much more steady than the Jarvis, both at resting as well as standing elevations. The majority of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pressed versus my wall; not always due to the fact that it’s that shaky, but just because I desire as much security as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even further, verifying to be just as stable by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar enhancement, which they claim includes much more stability when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it pertains to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 pounds of weight ability.

I’ve been utilizing the desk for concerning 3 weeks currently for day-to-day job (as well as complying with standing workdesk best methods), whether it’s typing out testimonials like this one from our desktop or a laptop computer from time to time. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, and the finish in addition to the desk still feels equally as smooth and slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it as well as several clean downs with a cloth.

Though I never ever purposefully attempt to dent any type of workdesks also hard, during some lighter tests (throwing a collection of keys onto it from a distance, as an example), it still stood up without too many noticeable indications of damages.

When I gauged the sound result of the workdesk while it rose from a sitting placement to standing and also back once again, it was by much the quietest we’ve evaluated. I could hardly get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your most significant issue is the whirr of your electric motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Client service

Now, usually I do not consist of much about the customer support assistance of any type of provided business, just since I really feel that as a whole if an item works the method its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them to begin with. And while I wish I might say that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not finish this evaluation without stating the countless, apparently limitless problems I experienced attempting to obtain my workdesk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out didn’t have any kind of memory mobile included originally, which implied I had no chance of in fact regulating the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk concerning this issue, that returned to me around a day later with an apology and also a guarantee that a new one would certainly be shipped out soon.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our issues …
Concerning 4 days later on a handset showed up in the mail. The mobile phone at first switched on, however it had not been long prior to I discovered that none of the programmable buttons worked, nor did the down switch, but for some reason the “memory” button dealt with the down feature just great. I spoke to the business again, and also they apologized for the mixup and also said they would have a new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later my brand-new panel and also control box showed up. Once I mounted them both the desk lastly began working the method it was intended to, however not after nearly a month of waiting as well as backward and forward with a business that couldn’t remember to deliver a core element of their item inside the same box from the outset.

Things to Think about

Regardless of its bankable features, this stand up workdesk also has its own disadvantages. Given that no singular stand desk might catch every one of the functions that you may need, you might take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a supporting crossbar is certainly not a deal-breaker, especially thinking about several of our other favored desks such as the Totally Jarvis also do not have one. In fact, this workdesk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (extra on this later on also).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it tougher to place your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they offer included stability, commonly critical when desks are completely prolonged.

We have not read any grievances of the security of this desk, so we do not believe its something to really be concerned regarding, although if you truly wanted a desk with a bar after that we suggest you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does use a separate add-on crossbar that you can include to the desk on your own, simply for an added $49.95.

Stability

The security of a standing workdesk is one of one of the most crucial facets of these workdesks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll discover it difficult to focus, which could lead to you coming to be much less interested in utilizing the desk at standing height. To obtain the best return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to be happy when using the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have actually checked with an optional cross support, I will break down my security tests into 2 areas. Both tests will certainly consist of the common front to back rocking test and a left to right wobble. The very first will be without the cross assistance and also the secondly will be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross assistance can increase stability by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion exactly how they thought of that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a different situation. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd workdesk that I evaluated that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the shaking motion was bad. Yet factor it would certainly influence your work.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Adding the cross assistance does not affect the shaking movement. The StandDesk Simple started to experienced a rocking movement at 36″. By 41″ the rocking movement misbehaved.

Left to Right: Adding the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion didn’t begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion came to be bad.

Note: It’s very essential with flexible standing desks to completely tighten all equipment. If there is hardware that is not completely tight, the motion experienced when extended to standing height will be overemphasized. This is specifically true with a desk frame that consists of 32 bolts, there are far way too many factors at which the desk has an opportunity to relocate.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually tested in our labs, we have to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktop computers, as the stability simply isn’t there for a huge mass elevated high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better matched to these applications, and for a rather apparent reason. Practically all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German business that developed this market, and also their average citizens are a lot taller than the ordinary Oriental consumer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time earlier. And also they have much more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, as well as large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

However if you’re not as well high, do not have an inordinate quantity of heavy devices on your desktop, as well as don’t require as well wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you excellent bang for your buck.

All that could alter with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he anticipates to launch at some time in the future. Initially we were told we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later it has yet to appear, and Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the product top quality he requires out of several Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted dealing with. The new style is allegedly mosting likely to be much easier to assemble and also have a heftier crossbar design, among other improvements. He states the brand-new base will be provided in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” arrangement, relieving our worry concerning side-load stressing on the training columns.

If this brand-new base ever pertains to market we’ll upgrade you here. Yet we’re not holding our breath any longer as the most current information on the company is that Yu closed the tiny Los Angeles office and has moved it to join with all its various other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing desk with outstanding efficiency has actually been introduce with the brand-new joint endeavor between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electrical standing workdesk. While limited in size as well as shade alternatives, it has taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the very best standing workdesk under $400.