AnotherOpus

+100 for letting users save workspaces. Not everyone fits into a developer's mold of how things should be. We all use Affinity Photo differently but 99.9% of us don't come from Gimp we come from Adobe Photoshop and this is an almost critical feature we've used for years (me since 1996, with double monitors, using one monitor for the workspace and the other for tools--kind a obvious).

+100 for letting users save workspaces. Not everyone fits into a developer's mold of how things should be. We all use Affinity Photo differently but 99.9% of us don't come from Gimp we come from Adobe Photoshop and this is an almost critical feature we've used for years (me since 1996, with double monitors, using one monitor for the workspace and the other for tools--kind a obvious).

+1 For saving workspace as well. To say it's unnecessary is ridiculous: a bit like saying you don't need a spout on a kettle as you can get the boiling water out of where you put in.

I have to say that it's disheartening to hear that saving a workspace isn't considered important. I find both Photo and Designer unusable without it, and I wonder who the intended audience is? Not folks who work as I do. The "persona" concept shows that there was a bit of thought given to the issue but possibly not much real world observation? It's sad- from what I can see the apps are phenomenal.

Can anyone confirm if this is on the to-do list yet? Is it coming?
It is very time-consuming and annoying to re-set everything up every time there's an upgrade, etc.

I totally agree that the option of being able to save customized workspaces is an absolute must have with Affinity Photo. When I discovered that you actually cannot do it, even after the update to version 1.6.7, I just couldn't believe it... Although I'd really like to switch away from Adobe it's not all bad what Photoshop (or Bridge) – and possibly other Adobe applications – have offered so far...
Speaking of this I also do miss the option of calling that big color wheel (HUD Color picker) right onto the screen with Control + Option + Cmd + Click (Mac) – this feature should be in Affinity Photo as soon as possible, as well.

+1 for this feature
 
I work with 2 external monitors on my laptop at home, but then none when I'm on the go. Sometimes managing palettes is tricky. They end up in weird places when i change monitor configs. Would be great to be able to restore to a saved state.

Over 20 years with psd, but new to Affinity. I'm here in the first hour, following a web search on "how do I save my workspace in Affinity Photo? The verdict is "you can't?" That's a big deal breaker. If using the thing is a pain, there's no way I'm going to open it regularly. I go back and forth between tasks, and go from one monitor to two desktop displays. Speed, and frankly, joy, come from knowing where everything is all of the time. I don't need a cyclone hitting my studio. And it would be nice to allow kids to learn on their own setup. From a quick search, this isn't even on your radar. Please. It's worse than frustrating. 
Edit:
I just went from my desktop display + laptop screen to just the laptop in Designer. My relative palette layout stayed about the same. When I plugged back into my desktop display, the palettes stayed fairly close but were now under the the app's header bar and the only palette I could move was the tool palette. Everything was frozen, had to force close the app and restart.

Just had the same experience.  It's frustrating to have to set everything up *again*.

Still no way to save Interface Layouts? I just updated Affinity Designer & Photo to versions 1.6, and both my custom interfaces are gone, replaced by the default ones. Saving Interface Layouts would help, at least in this instance.

When do we have the option to save the workspace ???????
It' really pain in the a** now. Sorry!

With version 2 or 3
 
Have installed my old psd cs6 to work a bit more productive (interface)

Photoshop artist with 20 years of experience here. I'm really trying to like Affinity. But this is a deal breaker for me. Suggesting that this is a useless feature is truly remarkable.
 
I work on about 10 different types of projects.
 
Sometimes I'm painting with a nearly blank canvas. Other times I'm doing film poster work with a few dozen masks.  Other times I'm doing model photo retouching.  Some documents have 200 layers and dozens of effects. Others require as much screen real estate as possible. I have different UI setups for everything. 
 
Anyone who thinks this is a matter of "not resetting" from the last setup is frankly missing the point. This is about versatility.
 
If you want to create a work environment that matches the dozens of ways people make images, you need a workspace that reflects that.
 
This is a major limitation of Affinity.