Most desk setups look the same in photos: black keyboard, black mouse, black mat. What makes one feel like somebody's is usually a single object that did not need to be there.
The rule is one or two, not ten. A desk covered in figures stops being a workspace.
A fidget that does not look like one
Hands want something to do on calls. Most fidget toys look like fidget toys. The takoyaki octopus is a 6.5 x 5.1 cm figure whose legs spin - 45 g, 3D printed in PLA, in four styles. It sits beside the keyboard as decoration and turns into something to fiddle with when the meeting runs long.
A figure for the dead space
Every desk has a gap that nothing useful fits into: the corner of a monitor stand, the end of a shelf. The hatching dino is palm-sized and printed in one piece, with no battery and no cable. It just sits there, which is the point.
The keyboard itself
A mechanical keyboard is the easiest thing on the desk to make your own, because the caps come off.
- The XDA Marshmallow set swaps the whole board to muted pastels. PBT with dye-sublimated legends, so the colour and the letters do not wear - the difference is explained in PBT vs ABS keycaps.
- The arcade joystick keycap is a red ball stick on a white base that sits over a small group of keys on a mechanical keyboard with standard switches. It is decoration, roughly 5.5 x 6.5 cm, and nothing to charge.
Colour where your hands are
The cloud wrist rest comes with a matching mouse pad in nine colours, including the greens and pinks that are hard to find in desk gear, on a non-slip base. Whether you need a wrist rest at all is a fair question: here is the honest answer.