Vitage LED
Light Fusion— Pay-per-use professional aesthetic skin rejuvenation therapy
Background
The team behind Vitage saw a gap in the market to help mobile aesthetic therapy professionals to treat the signs of ageing in clients homes or rented space in salons.
Lucid’s track record developing salon based LED therapies gave us the market awareness, human factors, electronics and software know-how and skills to deliver therapies to enhance skin hydration and collagen production.
Experience in online systems to manage payments and device credits fitted a proposed web managed, pay-per-use system aimed at rapidly expanding sales in the United States.
Objectives included:
Custom-configurable LED light arrays to effectively target areas of the face, hands, or neck.
Wirelessly connected, secure treatment credit management via a user app.
Account management features including consumable promotions and volume of sales based discounting.
Web portal with “white label” branding for an independent distributors network.
Discovery
Working with therapists and potential distributors, Lucid’s UX designers defined viable treatment protocols, ergonomic and logistic considerations relevant to the proposed business model.
Based on published clinical evidence our electronic and software design engineers refined treatment parameters into a technical specification that could meet FDA 510k regulatory equivalence requirements.
Design
Industrial design options included options for differing LED array configurations suited to delivering the right light density, wavelengths at target anatomy.
User group feedback guided design iteration to independent arrays capable of configuration together or treating different body areas simultaneously.
Lucid’s team balanced engineering a user’s day–to–day interactions with thermal management, structural and ingress protection for electronics and a touch-screen control interface.
Delivery
Lucid delivered the whole solution from design, prototypes, materials and prototypes specification and sourcing.
Results
Usability
Human factors engineering includes design for simple treatment interactions, safe, intuitive cleaning, build and service access.
Brand impact
Coherent brand messaging was implemented in the user interface and physical product.
Regulatory
ISO 14971 risk-management and ISO 60601 medical electrical safety principles were applied in development, resulting in first-time structural and EMC safety certification.
Sustainability
Good thermal management optimises power consumption. Design for disassembly minimises end-of-life impact.
Manufacturability
Modular design of independent sub-assemblies enables efficient, high-volume batch build and test.