Introducing: Nomad Desk (patent pending)

The portable standing desk that you can carry in your backpack. 

Light and compact for easy travel

Unfold and lock in seconds

Nomad Desk lets you work standing up or sitting down, in any location.

Get up to 15 levels of adjustability

Adaptable on all-terrain

Deal with uneven grounds

Is sitting at the same desk all day needed to achieve great work?

Here’s what we usually picture when we think about our workspace:

Long hours in a closed space, in the same spot.  Sometimes without even seeing the daylight. 

Today, our technology (laptop, smartphone, and 4/5G connection) allows us to work in ways that have never been possible. 

Are we taking full advantage of it yet?

Until now, our main spots to work from were: at home, the office, or in cafés/coworking spaces. 

The brave ones who try the exotic places usually get poor postures, leading to possible long-term consequences:

What if we could improve that?

(these pictures were taken in an airport in the middle of the pandemic)

Nomad Desk is strong enough to support the things you need on the go. 

And you can plug accessories

A solution with multi-purposes.

So versatile, it can be used for other things than work. 

Sketches and Prototypes

Nomad Desk Anatomy

Folded, lock it seamlessly

Main Reward

Add-ons

Why this project? 

During the pandemic, when you weren’t allowed to get out of your house, how did you feel?

Confined? Locked?

Well, that’s how I felt several times long before this crisis:

• During my early experience working in a big corporation, doing long hours in closed-space environments.
• When I started working remotely from a ridiculously tiny apartment in Paris.

I may be an exception. I like to change space now and then.

Although nature played a big role in the inspiration for this invention, Nomad Desk offers us greater flexibility anywhere, indoors included.

What’s even better?

This unique desk can support us for numerous purposes besides work.

Main Collaborators of this project

Numerous challenges can arise when starting a project from the ground up.

On this venture, I’ve been blessed to meet very special people, without whom it would be tough to imagine making this product.

Driss appeared to me like Gandalf from Lord of the Ring, coming and going all along this journey sharing nuggets of wisdom.
Thank you for your patience, for caring, and for sharing your experience.

Valentin is a designer, a fast prototyping specialist, and an eye-opening teacher.
He can fast-track your design thinking process in a blink of an eye. 
If you ever prototype a hardware product and want to fast-pace it, he can probably help you too. He loves to educate people.
You can reach him via Linkedin. He is a fantastic guy to work with!

Juan is a designer, maker, and creative enthusiast, who cheers you on.
He supports you to design new objects from scratch and is also a robotic educational maker who works with UNESCO to share his knowledge with kids.
If you want to design a product and need help, you can reach him on his LinkedIn.

Stanislas is an entrepreneur whose enthusiasm is infectious.
He’s one of the most generous guys I’ve met in sharing his experience developing products.
He would probably be surprised by my citing him.

The Paris Dream Consultant’s Team. 
These guys offered me a safe space to create. Their positive attitude carried me a long way. 
A special thank you to Eve-Lise, Oceane, Pierre, and Mickael for bearing with me when personal doubts were quite high.
Also thank you, Matthias and Anja, for your unmatchable kindness. (I won’t cite you all here; my deepest thanks, nonetheless.) 

Big thanks to Thomas, Lea, Logu, Olivier, and many other fellow Creators/Inventors from the coworking space.
Watching you grow and develop your projects gave me strength and helped soothe my doubts.
You made me feel less crazy dreaming of materializing this product.
I loved sharing parts of the journey with you. 

Thanks to my family, who understandably showed lots of skepticism, and were probably scared until the very end. And nonetheless found the power to bring me support when I needed it the most.

And to all of you who contributed in one way or another, thank you.

Shipping

It’ll probably come as a shock. 

Because of the pandemic and geopolitical tension, shipping prices can’t be set now. It’s very likely prices will change 6-7 months from now.

In June 2020 shipping rates for international containers to the United States were around $2,500.

In September 2021, during the pandemic, it cost over $20,000 to ship the same container.

And in June 2022, the price came down to half that at $9,500.

This is still 4x higher than what it was about 2 years ago ($2,500).

That’s why shipping will be charged just before sending your package at the best available price.

You’ll receive a form just before your package is ready to ship, to fill in your address and choose your preferred mode of transportation (standard, express…).

Below are the shipping estimates based on September prices (the last forecast available). Please keep in mind that things could change. 

If you got further questions about shipping, please reach out at contact@nomaddesk.co

Risks and Challenges

Any upcoming innovation has its own set of risks and challenges.

By taking the time to prototype for more than 3 years, we may have overcome the main obstacles to this product.

Yet there is still one major challenge, manufacturing in batches.

On the timeline, it is forecast 7 months before delivery. And I commit to making everything I can to respect this timeline.

That said, if we study fellow creators with successful crowdfunding campaigns, we can see that unexpected events are almost to be expected. 

Who could have predicted the war and geopolitical tension rising between some countries? What about the pandemic? And the impact of all of these on both raw materials prices and transportation delays? Some countries are still subject to heavy quarantine periods before crossing borders.

Is it impossible for all of these events to move in our favor to reduce the production delay? Probably not. I’m just sitting on the safe side. 

Since we live in a time where we’re used to 1 day delivery from Amazon, waiting for an upcoming invention which can take several months to come, can feel frustrating and require unusual patience.

For this, you’ll receive updates to let you know about the progress.