What’s on your desk, Allison Johnson?

Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, on with, arsenic she says, “a spot of telecom connected the side, which means I americium a nonrecreational telephone user.” She came to The Verge from DPReview, wherever she covered integer cameras and smartphone cameras.

That looks similar a cozy space. Where successful your location is it?

It’s successful our bedroom. When my hubby and I moved into our house, we were 2 radical who some worked extracurricular of the home. Now, we’re 2 radical who some enactment from location afloat clip positive a three-year-old, truthful cozy is an understatement! I really determination astir the location a batch with my laptop passim the day, truthful the table is much of a location base.

Could you archer america a spot astir the table itself?

It’s a mini table from West Elm. It was a lockdown acquisition erstwhile everyone was buying desks and stuff, truthful things were a small chaotic. The archetypal clip it “arrived,” I opened the box, and determination was a lampshade inside. The existent table came a fewer months later.

And your seat (including the footrest)?

The seat is from Ikea, and it’s honestly not great, but the pillow helps. The footrest is by a company called Cushion Lab, and it’s so comfy. It’s benignant of similar a steadfast representation foam, and I knead my feet into it similar a feline making biscuits.

I emotion however neatly you’ve got your cords arranged.

It wasn’t ever this way! I request to person a fewer antithetic kinds of chargers astatine the ready, since I power smartwatches whenever I power betwixt Android and iOS, positive I’m ne'er giving up my Lightning-charged iPhone 13 Mini. I utilized to food the cables disconnected the level erstwhile I needed them but I yet got these stick-on cord holders, and I’ve been a changed pistillate ever since.

Tell america astir the assorted tech devices you’re using.

I usage my company-issued M1 MacBook Air, and the artillery beingness is inactive truthful bully that I ne'er bring a charger if I’m going to enactment from determination other during the day. At my desk, I usage this Logitech Pebble 2 keyboard and mouse that I bought purely based connected looks but they’re rather nice. I usage this Rain Design laptop stand, which is precise sturdy. I bought the fixed mentation alternatively than the adjustable and was a small disquieted I wouldn’t similar it, but it’s been great. I besides person the infamous Brother laser printer and haven’t had to bargain caller toner for it successful the 5 years I’ve been utilizing it to people shipping labels. It rules.

I spot you’ve got abstracted retention for your telephone reappraisal units.

Again, it wasn’t ever this way. Unless a institution wants their reappraisal instrumentality backmost close away, I similar to support them for astir a twelvemonth aft the reappraisal to revisit them and usage them for comparisons. But everything yet goes backmost to the manufacturer, unless they specifically don’t privation it — successful which lawsuit I bring it to a halfway that volition either refurbish and reuse them oregon recycle them. I was keeping them successful their boxes until I saw immoderate different telephone reviewers had them organized successful neat small stands, truthful I got one, and I’m not definite however I lived without it before. 

That’s a beauteous lamp!

It gives disconnected this bully orangish glow that is indispensable successful the wintertime erstwhile it starts getting acheronian astatine 3:30PM. Also, I similar that I tin usage it to fto the vicinity cognize if the British are coming by onshore oregon by sea.

Like galore of our colleagues, you besides usage a insubstantial notebook. Do you person a penchant for a definite type?

I’m an implicit sucker for a Moleskine notebook.

Whose enactment of creation is that connected the partition adjacent to your desk? (Just supra your name-tag collection.)

That’s the enactment of my lad Lennox, astir property 2 astatine that point, I think. You deliberation you’re not going to beryllium a “kid-art-at-your-desk” idiosyncratic until you are.

As a Marx Brothers fan, I couldn’t assistance noticing the representation of Groucho supra the thorax of drawers.

I conjecture different kids successful precocious schoolhouse were going to parties and worldly portion I was astatine location watching each Marx Brothers movie I could get my hands on. Duck Soup is an all-timer but A Night astatine the Opera is simply a adjacent second. I benignant of stole this representation from an ex, though I deliberation helium knew astir it and fto maine instrumentality it. But if you privation it back, I’ll nonstop it to you, Matt.

Is determination thing we didn’t screen that you’d similar to add?

“Outside of a dog, a publication is simply a man’s champion friend. Inside of a dog, it’s excessively acheronian to read.”

Photography by Allison Johnson / The Verge.