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Notes on AV rooms, product design, deployment details, technology change, and the work of making hardware feel like it belongs in the spaces people use every day.
News / May 7, 2026
Enterprise AV standardization has become one of the clearest conversations in the channel right now. Everywhere you look, integrators, technology managers, and manufacturers are asking some version of the same question: How do you create an AV standard that
News / May 6, 2026
The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 isn’t something most AV teams think about—until it shuts a project down. Because that’s what it does. It sets a simple rule: The U.S. Government can only buy products that are manufactured or substantially transformed in the
News / May 5, 2026
The way higher education thinks about AV has changed. It used to be room-by-room. One classroom, one install. Fixed projection. Fixed mounts. Refresh cycles handled department by department. That model is fading. Today, campuses are thinking in systems. One
News / April 30, 2026
The shift toward managed AV is not a trend that snuck up on the industry. For the past several years, enterprise organizations have been moving — with varying degrees of urgency — from treating AV as a collection of isolated projects toward treating it as an
News / April 23, 2026
Enterprise AV standardization isn’t a talking point anymore. It’s an operational requirement. Organizations aren’t asking if they should standardize—they’re asking how to do it across 50, 100, even 200 locations without everything drifting off course halfway
News / April 22, 2026
Every AV deployment has a number that never shows up on the bill of materials — the labor cost of installation complexity. A system that takes 90 minutes to assemble instead of 20 does not fail visibly. It fails financially. The time delta compounds across
News / April 21, 2026
The most expensive AV mistake isn’t choosing the wrong product. It’s choosing the right product—and designing a room that can’t support it. You see it all the time once projects reach the field. A large-format display shows up, and suddenly the room starts
News / April 20, 2026
ADA compliance isn’t something you fix later. It’s something you either design for from the beginning—or you pay for in the field. And too often, it’s treated like a last-minute coordination task. A display shows up on site. The room is built. The mounting
News / April 14, 2026
Value engineering always shows up. Early in design, it’s theoretical. A line in a budget. A future conversation. Nothing urgent. Later, it gets real. Budgets tighten. Procurement begins. “Or equal” substitutions land on someone’s desk. And suddenly, the
News / April 10, 2026
Hybrid work is no longer an experiment. Organizations aren’t asking if they need hybrid meeting rooms—they’re figuring out how to make them work across dozens, sometimes hundreds of locations without slowing everything down. And that’s where things begin to
News / April 6, 2026
A university built a lecture hall. Fixed-mount display on the north wall. Perfect, at the time. Three months later, they now need to run seminars instead. The 85-inch display now faces the wrong wall. The room is frozen in one configuration and there’s
News / March 31, 2026
Here's a scenario that plays out every week in corporate IT departments across the country. You've got budget approval for 50 new Teams Rooms. The displays are spec'd. The video bars are ordered. The network drops are live. Everything's ready — except you
News / June 5, 2025
Heckler Framework is a breakthrough product line to design and deploy video meeting walls at scale. Though it outwardly resembles traditional credenza cabinetry, Heckler Framework is, in fact, a modular structural system engineered for maximum flexibility,
News / January 30, 2025
Heckler is excited to introduce two new products, co-developed with Logitech, to support Microsoft's Express Install for Microsoft Teams Rooms initiative: Heckler Express Install Tabletop Stand and Heckler Express Install Rolling Stand. These solutions enable
News / May 20, 2024
Meet the new Heckler Mobile Fleet! These six unique commercial-grade rolling stands are crafted to meet diverse usage scenarios, making them perfect for open offices, meeting rooms, breakout spaces, event spaces, and auditoriums. Each rolling stand in the
News / October 19, 2022
Since June 2012, our authentic iPad point-of-sale stands have graced the countertops of the best shops in the world. To celebrate its tenth year and our latest version we are bringing back its original "WindFall" name. H750. Create flexible and capable room
News / October 22, 2021
When done right, video meetings can integrate seamlessly into daily work life. Unfortunately, some people haven’t quite grasped how to fully make the most of virtual meetings. That’s why we’d like to share four helpful tips to take your virtual meetings to
News / October 19, 2021
Let’s face it, we’re living in a new normal. With a worldwide pandemic still disrupting daily life, it’s important to adapt to new ways of doing things, especially in the modern workplace. At Heckler, we’ve experienced first hand what it’s like to work from
News / March 27, 2021
The way we work has gone through a radical transformation through 2020 and shows no signs of stopping in 2021. As the capabilities of the modern work environment expand to our home offices, the technology we use to keep connected is more central to our lives
News / February 24, 2021
2020 may be behind us, but its ghost continues to linger into 2021. While a return to offices is on the horizon, many of us are still looking for ways to make sure we have the best and coolest home office setup possible. Being an all-in-one design and
News / November 24, 2020
As 2020 comes to an end and the holiday season begins, we look back on a year where work from home and distance learning became a part of everyday life for many of us. Outfitting your home workstation with the best hardware to make your workspace comfortable
News / November 19, 2020
For years, folks who love our iPad stands have asked us to create stand accessories for iPhone. But, in a crowded market of iPhone stands and and even more crowded market of wireless chargers, there was little room to create something special. Enter MagSafe.
News / August 11, 2020
Heckler Design’s latest product, WindFall Kiosk is the culmination of years of iterative design and development effort. We managed to coerce WindFall Kiosk’s designer, Dean Heckler, to answer a few design-related questions. What took you so long to produce a
News / August 11, 2020
Minimalist design and the television were two things that simply just didn’t go together…until recently that is. Traditionally the only options for TVs, and home entertainment centers for that matter, have been bulky heaps of electronics – unattractive
News / August 11, 2020
On January 15th, 2008, Heckler Design introduced its first product. OneLessDesk immediately found an audience with people longing for a space-saving, ergonomic desk for modern, beautiful, compact computers. At introduction many of OneLessDesk’s innovations