I’ve always switched back and forth over the years between a dual and single monitor setup. Decided to just embrace the single monitor life and don’t have any urges to go back to dual. I love just having a single screen of focus and the space savings on my desk.

I have always used a single monitor, but I would like to experiment with two. Maybe then I’ll go back to one monitor.

Definitely give it a go before you ultimately decide!

The same thing that goes for good design goes for screens: don’t divert attention. If you want a laptop screen on the side to check secondary info, ok, but don’t put two same sized screens next to each other. Go with a larger one.

I was thinking of moving to 2 out of 27”, but just with that in mind, I could move to a big one and a small one.

You will always have a crooked neck with two main screens. I use a 34” and that’s a bit too large to comfortably see the edges. Hard either way figma / framer sideboards.

I like two. Laptop on the left, monitor on the right. I use the laptop for references/admin, and the monitor for design work.

Same, I also use a mouse in my right hand and trackpad on the laptop for gestures with my left.

In my case, I use wacom in my right hand and trackpad with the left hand

Yeah nice. I like the trackpad on the left for zoom precision on Google Slides 🤣

Normally prefer monitor upfront and laptop below. Laptop for more static things (emails, notes, etc) and monitor for web, IDEs, and “work”. Never bought into multiple side by side monitors.

It may be another option, but for now I use Mac mini, so an external one is necessary.

I use just one but it’s this massive square-ish one, i feel like the vertical style multitasking works better for me

LG’s 16:18 DualUp is a weird monitor for getting work done

This goofy-looking monitor made me more efficient.

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This seems cool 👀

I've been using a single ultra wide monitor for a few years and it has become my preferred setup. Extra room on my workspace, and then for organizing different applications I use virtual desktops.

Dual for life. For a couple of reasons: I can compartmentalise my apps (work/comms) and use one as an asset library, also so I can see how things look across diff monitors (5k/1080).

Went down to one about a year ago and I don’t think I’ll ever look back. More space just meant more distractions for me :/