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Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

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Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#51

Out of curiosity - have you actually prototyped this? Or is everything on that website just a rendering? Also, having worked in the space, it seems like you're missing some key features of enterprise workstations - chief among them is supporting monitor arms for external monitors.

Good catch, it looks like the channel that's used to stuff cables in wouldn't work with clamp style monitor arms.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#52

Two-leg standing desks are very wobbly. You should offer a premium model using a four-leg design, similar to DeskHaus's [1]. I don't represent them, but I do have one of these desks. [1] https://desk.haus/products/apex-pro-2?variant=39436448366741

I've got a Fully 2 leg standing desk and maybe my definition of "very wobbly" is different than yours, but I've been happy with it.

It must be, because I've used one and it produces an unacceptable level of wobble. It's not much by itself, but if you add monitor arms and such, and raise the desk, it is quite noticable

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#53
Congrats on the launch.

Your website is super annoying to me. Gray on black prevents me to read much of the text without highlighting or zooming in. Those image swaps for scrolling is very distracting and disconcerting.

Convince me that your desk is worth the money (which we do not know), compared to buying an Ikea door and set of sturdy electric stand/sit legs with memory ($600).

The drawings on your website do look interesting, and look quite sleek and well executed.

edit: bit more details about my desk so the comparison makes sense desktop is 61" x 30" x 1" solid wood, goes sitting 26" to 52"+, I stopped at 52" because the cables where stretching, lifts up to 500lbs, have not tried that max.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#54
Two things I didn't see mentioned that I'd want to see:

Some sort of low profile storage, so I can keep my desk clear so I can see the display. Right now I have so many things on my desk that I'd like to put under it: gift cards, USB dongles and storage, lip balm, eye drops, sticky note pads, tape...

Lacing bars underneath to mount equipment to, for example I have my docking station mounted under my desk. I also mount a power strip and ziptie power and data cables to it, which will be less of an issue with the built in charging/power receptacles.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#56

Two-leg standing desks are very wobbly. You should offer a premium model using a four-leg design, similar to DeskHaus's [1]. I don't represent them, but I do have one of these desks. [1] https://desk.haus/products/apex-pro-2?variant=39436448366741

I have a 2-leg Uplift desk, and I really have to lean into it to make it wobble

Do you have monitor arms? The tiny wobble is exaggerated by the monitor arms. Plus, when standing, I do often lean into the desk a bit.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#57

Looks very slick. I'm not sure I understand why I'd want stock prices and social feeds on my desk though, but I guess that's configurable. I imagine this is a personal preference thing, but I've never really understood the appeal of having task lists and such in my face all the time, whether it be on a watch or a widget on my phone home screen or wherever. If I'm managing tasks, I'll open up my task list and then sho…

No you're not missing something. This is aimed at the tech person equivalent of Instagram bullet journalers, where the act of decorating pages and writing tasks is the goal as well as the process.

I don't get it either but I can at least see the appeal.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#58

This looks great! One problem I've noticed is that with my adjustable desk (Jarvis) I found that following guides on "proper pose" the correct height of my desk is 26 inches when sitting down (and I'm not short), while this has a minimum height of 30 inches. Are you planning to add an extended range option?

+1. Would really like to emphasize this point by @cube2222. I'm currently on the market for a height adjustable desk, and have eliminated some options based on the fact that they don't go down to 25-26". It's the first filter I use in my search. And I will mention...I'm willing to pay more to ensure that I get that.

It's a cool idea, but huge swaths of the population won't find this ergonomic as it is currently.

Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

#59

I would mostly be interested in ergonomic sensors. I never know if I am using a good posture. Apart of that, I want to focus on my work instead of having a source of interruptions.

You can display this on the integrated screens:

"if you can read this you are bending your neck too much"

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