Humanscale Ergonomic Product Guide

Humanscale Performance. Simplicity. Longevity.

About us Since our founding, Humanscale has pioneered the healthy, active workspace. Today, we are the global leader in ergonomic products for home, work and healthcare spaces.

From seating and lighting to monitor arms and beyond, Humanscale creates high-performance tools that adapt to each user.

Our Design Philosophy At Humanscale, we believe the best designs in the world are based on purpose and function. If a design solves a functional problem as simply and elegantly as possible, the resulting form will be honest and timeless.

We are guided by three distinct principles: Performance, Simplicity and Longevity.

Performance Uncompromising performance is at the heart of every Humanscale product. Our products are created in accordance with how people actually work, providing unsurpassed comfort while encouraging effortless, intuitive use.

Simplicity The highest level of functionality is achieved through simplicity. When someone sits in any Humanscale chair, they can easily move from posture to posture. Movement is facilitated by the sitter’s body weight and physics.

Longevity We choose materials and finishes that stand the test of time, ensuring they look as beautiful after years of heavy use as the day they were taken out of the box.

Movement Traditional fixed office furniture has kept us in static, unhealthy postures for the last fifty years. Since our beginning, Humanscale has designed products that create a healthy and active workspace, one that adjusts to the user, promotes spontaneous movement, and improves comfort and productivity.

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The Freedom chair, hailed

by The New York Times as “the gold standard in office seating,” has revolutionised task seating by replacing bulky and complex recline mechanisms with the laws of physics and the sitter’s own body weight.

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Diffrient Smart is the embodiment of performance and minimalism. Every aspect of the design is essential to the chair’s function.

A smart chair adapts to your weight and shape automatically, as if the chair were made for you personally.

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Unlike single-panel mesh chairs that require external lumbar devices, Liberty’s patented, form-sensing mesh backrest provides customised support for each unique sitter.

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Comprised of only eight major parts, Diffrient World is Humanscale’s most minimal task chair. The standard cushion seat is replaced with a soft-edge non-stretch mesh, relieving pressure on the knees and contact stress behind the thighs.

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The finishes on our stackable Occasional line can be configured to complement our mesh task seating chairs. Simple, functional and beautiful, the backrest on each Occasional features Form-Sensing Mesh Technology, setting a new bar for multipurpose seating.

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The futuristic language of the Trea multipurpose chair is complemented by sophisticated ergonomics.

Jury of the Red Dot Award

Created in collaboration with visionary designer Todd Bracher, Trea fuses high design with expert engineering and offers intuitive comfort by mimicking the instinctive recline of the human body.

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A Don Chadwick design

Designed by Don Chadwick, Ballo provides more stability than traditional ball chairs. Perfect for short term, active sitting in any area, Ballo is a fun and engaging multipurpose seating solution.

The groundbreaking Element Disc sets a new bar for LED task lighting performance, aesthetics and sustainability. Engineered for incredible efficiency over its life span, Element Disc uses only seven watts and is rated for up to 50,000 hours of use.

Humanscale teamed with designers Peter Stathis and Michael McCoy to create Horizon, which resides in the permanent collection at MoMA. This strikingly modern task lamp produces an ultra-wide footprint of glare-free light, dims at the touch of a hand and is available in eight vibrant colours.

A Todd Bracher design

Created by visionary designer Todd Bracher, Vessel is a glare-free light that evolved through challenging traditionally held views on light efficiency. Offering three optic length sizes, Vessel produces a dramatic display when hung or mounted collectively and is an elegant solution for installations far beyond the corporate environment.

Producing 1500 lux illumination, Humanscale’s Infinity LED task light boasts stunning, sleek design, optimal usability and best-of-class light output. An intuitive dimmer control customises nine levels of light, and a passive infrared occupancy sensor conserves energy.

A revolutionary standing office desk, users can easily find the ideal height for health and comfort by tapping Float’s innovative counterbalance mechanism.

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…just press a lever under the desk and it glides, almost weightlessly, up and down.

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Tried and tested in Good Housekeeping’s respected Technology Lab, Humanscale’s sleek and height-adjustable QuickStand tool retrofits to any work surface, transforming a fixed-height desk into an active one.

QuickStand Lite is a minimal sit/stand tool that can be easily added to any existing work surface. Users can adjust the keyboard and monitor arm platform to suit their unique ergonomic needs.

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Humanscale’s OfficeIQ gives your standing desk a brain.

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OfficeIQ connects Humanscale’s height-adjustable solutions with occupancy and height sensors.

Workstation users can receive real-time statistics on activity, calories burned and progress towards wellness goals.

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Available with Humanscale’s best-selling line of monitor arms, the M/Connect USB hub resides on the desktop while its dock resides below the desk surface. Permanent cables are concealed, providing users instant accessibility to active and high-speed charging ports.

Monitor Arms Our monitor arms not only promote a clutter-free workspace, they support a healthier, more ergonomic working posture.

Our monitor arms can also be easily adjusted, and when paired with M/Connect, they are even more conducive to collaborative and hot-desking environments.

From our best-selling, high-performance M2® monitor arm to M/Flex — the world’s most scalable monitor system — Humanscale offers a solution for every environment and hardware support need.

Sustainability We take sustainability seriously. Our goal is to minimise our negative impacts and maximise our positive contributions through conservation, resulting in an overall net positive impact on the planet.

We follow this vision through our market strategy, design, engineering and manufacturing decisions. We are always looking for ways to incorporate rapidly renewable and biodegradable materials in our products while reducing our energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

We are proud to be the first company to fully complete the International Living Future Institute’s Living Product Challenge.

As a result, our Float table and Diffrient Smart task chair are both certified Living Products. Each time you purchase a Living Product, you are investing in your well-being and making a positive contribution to both surrounding communities and the earth.

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