Lynton Lasers

Excelight and 3Juve -  medically accredited salon aesthetic laser therapy systems

Background

Lynton Lasers, the UK leader in medical and aesthetic therapy devices has partnered with Lucid to provide industrial and electronic design for over 15 years.

Objectives included:

• Simplification and acceleration of the administration of 10 different skin and hair treatments.

• Material and process specification economic for low-volume batch manufacturing.

• Robust safe and regulatory-compliant design appropriate for many years of use in salon environments.

• Instant Lynton brand recognition to inspire consumer and user confidence.

Discovery

To understand human, logistics and technical challenges our designers met with therapists, their clients and Lynton’s in-house engineering team. 

Mapping the product interactions and lifecycle and considering the competitive context, we prioritised opportunities to add value from product build through dispatch, use, servicing and end-of-life.

Design

Rationalising potential component layouts, Lucid’s team balanced engineering a user’s day–to day interactions with thermal management and structural protection for high-voltage electronics and touch-screen interfaces in close proximity. 

Working through options with sketch visuals, 3D CAD, block model and working prototypes, we engaged stakeholders in providing valuable feedback, developing a clean, clinical aesthetic integrated with a simple user interface.

Design for EMC, ingress and structural test requirements were optimised in concurrence with the consideration of ergonomic access for service disassembly and recycling.

Delivery

Providing unambiguous engineering design specification we involved manufacturing subcontractors in the UK and Far-East early and throughout the design process.

Lucid’s in-house production facility built prototypes, checked and snagged design before handover to Lynton for manufacture.

Results

Usability

Human factors engineering evaluation templates were prepared enabling Lynton’s team to deliver evaluation consistent with the required standard IEC 62366:1.

Brand impact

Coherent brand messaging developed in Excelight has been extended over other Lynton products.

Regulatory

ISO 14971 risk-management and ISO 60601 medical electrical safety principles were applied throughout development, resulting in first-time structural and EMC safety certification.

Sustainability

Good thermal management optimises power consumption. Design for disassembly minimises environmental impact.

Manufacturability

Modular design of independent sub-assemblies enables efficient, low-volume batch build and test.