In 2025, we’re seeing significant changes in industries where employees need to adjust monitor height, tilt, and location on the fly. At patient check-ins in healthcare, for instance, or with dynamic wide screen workstation setups in finance. Monitors must now adapt to space, workflow, and compliance, not the other way around, with products being built around sector-specific needs.
As a result, one-size-fits-all monitors are no longer good enough for businesses. And in their place, we’re now seeing the advent of a ‘one screen per desk’ era, displays becoming agile tools tuned to the sector they serve, and a shift in monitor design towards flexibility, minimalism, and smart integration.
The new generation of monitor technology is characterised by a simple, self-contained design aesthetic (put simply, making large monitors feel more like tablets than old PC screens) and greatly improved movability. Think lightweight stands that can quickly attach or detach from the monitor, with a wide range of movement enabled by multiple articulated joints and easy transportation across the floor on multi-directional wheels or castors. In other words – beautiful, high-res monitors on stands that can be quickly repositioned, raised, lowered, and angled in any direction.
Improving customer experiences across industries
These innovations in the monitor landscape have evolved to support a range of different functions. Agile, flexible displays can be used to benefit a variety of environments. Below we share some practical examples:
- Retail
In retail, movable, high-quality touchscreen displays can make it quicker and easier for customers to collect their orders in-store – as well as adding a sense of cutting-edge technology to what can sometimes be a slow or stressful experience, removing the need to stand in line at the till. They can also be used to deliver promotions on the shop floor, giving sales and customer experience teams more flexibility to redesign the space without having to go through costly construction work. In higher-value retail – car sales, for example – movable monitors can also enable product demos at any point in the store, which is particularly useful when customers are moving around a showroom. For special events like product launches, the same displays can also be repositioned to form part of an event space.
- Hospitality
In hospitality environments like hotel lobbies, this next generation of display technologies can be used to improve day-to-day functions such as wayfinding or self-check-in. The ability to move the display to meet the customer – particularly a tired customer weighed down with bags and suitcases – adds a first touch that is convenient and thoughtful- something that can make all the difference to that all-important first impression. Flexible displays can also be used in guest rooms in place of the standard wall-mounted TV, enabling customers to set their room up how they want it – and, if touch-screen capability is built in, order room service or contact front desk directly.
- Healthcare
In healthcare, the possibilities of movable displays are huge. In hospitals more than anywhere else, bringing the system to the patient is of utmost importance. Movable displays can help medical staff to easily communicate information* to patients with visual elements such as X-Ray, MRI, or ECG results, as well as enabling information input during consultations without the need to access a desktop computer after the fact, which duplicates work. In the UK, movable displays can also help to improve performance compared to the outdated ‘computer on wheels’ systems many hospitals currently employ.
Flexible spaces, comfortable working
Whatever the situation, flexible, movable display technologies offer improved portability and upgraded resolution to help people do business to the best of their ability wherever they are.
The ability to move a screen to the optimal position for a customer or patient without needing to rewire the setup (or call a colleague to help you shift the heavy screen) can be a real game-changer in face-to-face industries. Touchscreen functionality also enables customers to take control of their own experience, ordering their own food, checking in to their own booking, or browsing products. Combining these two functions opens up a whole range of customer experience possibilities – people creating an ideal outfit on their portable display as they browse a store, for example, trying out different pairings without having to go through the process of trying on every combination in the changing room.
In creative industries, too, the simple fact of being able to finely position a high-definition, large-scale screen could help unlock workflows. Animators, designers, or video editors can be freed up from one particular spot, enabled to collaborate more freely across a studio, or to change up their working position in their own home.
In short, the old days of fixed, ‘dumb’ displays are fast receding. Movable, smart, touchscreen display technology can help businesses take their operations to the next level.
To learn more visit: https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/
*not designed for use in making medical diagnosis
