Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 (Must Have Tech)

I recently bought an Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 which I should’ve made long ago. It’s an expensive piece of a great tech which I never thought I needed.

I hesitated to get one before because of the price but until I knew that the deck can be used just fine without the “unchangeable” height stand. And also, the time-save it can bring definitely helps in daily tasks.

# Unboxing, where?

Unfortunately, I never got to take a video or even photos of the unboxing. The box contains the device, the detachable USB-C cable, and the stand. Sadly, it does not include a free faceplate to interchange the default black plain plate.

# Setting Up

The device requires the Stream Deck application to actually setup what actions the buttons will do.

There are also lots of useful community-made plugins inside the Stream Deck’s Store that you will find very useful.

Setting the device is technically easy but I felt that some icon designs (the ones I needed) are very basic and were not standard.

So I try to make my own minimal but on-context (for me) icons.

# Making Custom Icons

After reading Elgato’s Style Guide Documentation for making Stream Deck Icons, I decided to start doing my key icons.

Icon	Size	@2x
Key Icon	72x72 px	144x144 px

Elgato's Key Icon standard size

Thankfully, I use Figma for wireframing/designing graphics so it is the best tool to create these icons. Plus, it has an export button that upscale the design @2x.