Lumie.

Bringing powerful daylight into a slimmer design.

Lumie asked us to design a new entry-level SAD light to sit alongside its existing range. It needed to be slim, portable and quick to set up, without losing the light output people rely on to manage seasonal affective disorder. The result, Vitamin L, brought together industrial design, materials engineering and rigorous testing in a product that's as easy to live with as it is effective.

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Consumer Goods

Expertise

Product Design

Background.

Making effective light therapy small enough for any desk.

Lumie has been a light therapy expert since 1991, helping people manage seasonal affective disorder through daylight-simulating products.

Vitamin L needed to complement Lumie's existing range as a modern, powerful and compact entry-level product. It had to be extremely thin and space-efficient, easy to transport between home and office, and quick to set up, all while still delivering the light intensity proven to ease the tiredness, low mood and lack of motivation associated with SAD. It was another chapter in an ongoing collaboration between WMP's design team and Lumie.

The Solution.

A smartphone-slim design built to perform like a much bigger light.

Solving heat and water ingress within a slimline chassis.

Key design challenges included developing and testing venting details that could dissipate heat efficiently while still meeting the stringent ingress requirements for medical products. Several rounds of prototyping and testing helped us work through each challenge before landing on a solution that was both safe and slim.

Building strength and heat dissipation into a single aluminium chassis.

We adopted a modern smartphone-style build, with an internal aluminium chassis that adds structural strength, dissipates heat and seals off the venting holes to prevent water ingress, all within a housing thin enough to sit unobtrusively on any desk.

Delivering 10,000 lux from a soft, even light source.

The lighting effect comes from a series of edge-lit LEDs combined with a soft diffuser, producing a powerful, warm and even output of 10,000 lux at 20cm. That matches the performance of much larger lights in a fraction of the space. A detachable foot lets Vitamin L switch between portrait and landscape use, and packs down small enough to take anywhere.

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The impact.

A compact, powerful light that extended a long-standing partnership between WMP and Lumie.

Vitamin L went on to become part of Lumie's core range, and is still sold today through Lumie's own site and major retailers. It's proof that a slim, entry-level design didn't mean compromising on the light therapy people rely on.