I'm building http://Desk.Fit out of frustration.
I sit on my desk for 8 hours a day. I look around the office and I see people doing the same. Bent over the keyboard for hours, sitting on chairs that just doesn't feel right.
I look outside the window, and what I see is dozens of office buildings, with hundreds of offices and thousands of office workers. Everyone of them is risking their health in the long run. Most of them know this already, but almost nobody acts accordingly.
Don't get me wrong, I choose to work on a desk. But I started to feel unhealthy some time ago because of how I spent my time in the office. I really want to change things for myself and the people around me.
Experts say you should invest into a really good mattress because you spend one third of your day sleeping on it. That's also what I did. But I would like to go further, as another third of the day I spent in the office.
So I looked around to see what is already out there that could help me. I categorised all those products and services and created a curated list out of it (that is basically the research I did for Desk.Fit). I hope that this might be of value for others as well.
I'm trying a lot of those products and services my self. I'll blog about my experiences with them and put this also into a newsletter (You can sign up at http://desk.fit). That said, my main goal is to create products that will look at healthy desk environment solutions from a new angle. My research showed me that there are a lot of half-baked solutions out there.
With todays technology and user focused design methods, there could be done so much more to help people. From easy things like providing healthy snacks during the day, to small exercises that can be performed without the need to stop working, to proper desk light, eye-resting reminders and much much more.
I'm happy for any kind of feedback. Thanks for reading
