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Journal

Thinking from the physical layer of modern collaboration.

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.

More from the Journal

News / May 6, 2026

TAA Compliance: What AV Specifiers Need to Know in 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 / April 30, 2026

Managed AV Governance Starts Before Deployment

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

The Missing Layer in Enterprise AV Standardization

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 14, 2026

The Standard: Writing AV Hardware Into Your Furniture Specification

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

Do Hybrid Meeting Rooms Fail at Scale?

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

Express Install Tabletop Stand

News / April 6, 2026

Why Mobile Display Stands Are Replacing Fixed Mounts in Higher Ed

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 / June 5, 2025

Announcing Heckler Framework

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

Logitech and Heckler Express Install for Microsoft Teams Rooms

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

Sneak Peek Of The Heckler Mobile Fleet

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

Deploy iPad 10th Generation with All-New Heckler Mounts and Stands

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

heckler camera shelf

News / October 22, 2021

4 Tips for Holding a Successful Video Meeting

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

heckler av credenza 2U

News / October 19, 2021

Hardware for the Hybrid Workplace

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

heckler ipad desk stand

News / March 27, 2021

The Best Modern Tech Hardware & Products for the Office

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 / November 24, 2020

4 Perfect Modern Tech Gifts for the Holiday Giving Season

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

Heckler Creates An iPhone Stand, Finally

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

Design Details: WindFall Kiosk

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

Heckler TV Stand Rear View for Cable Routing and Mounting

News / August 11, 2020

Design Details: Inside Heckler TV Stand

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

onelessdesk tenth anniversary edition with leather desk pad

News / August 11, 2020

OneLessDesk 10th Anniversary Edition

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