Gesture

To design a new sitting experience, we stopped looking at chairs and started looking at people.

Understanding posture at work and how the body naturally moves caused us to ask, “could a chair act as a system, just like human body?”

This question caused us to fundamentally rethink how to design a chair. When we studied the full range of postures at work, we studied three key interfaces between the human body and their chair.

• core interface
• limb interface
• seat interface

LIMB INTERFACE

The Gesture arm moves like the human arm, which allows users to be supported in any  position.

Arms and shoulder remain supported when texting on a smartphone, typing on a keyboard or swiping a tablet.

CORE INTERFACE

The Gesture office chair back and seat move as a synchronized system, moving with each user to provide continuous and persistent support.

SEAT INTERFACE

The Gesture seat brings comfort all the way to the edges. It is flexible at the perimeter to allow users to sit in a range of postures without obstruction.

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GESTURE CHAIR – ADJUSTABILITY

Gesture adapts cleverly to your natural movements and has simple controls that are easy to find, understand and use.

The Gesture headrest is integrated into the design. The design of the Gesture headrest takes into consideration features such as factors head size, neck length and desired range of motion into consideration.

Through this intentional design, the Gesture headrest not only provides comfort and support,  but also offers an unprecedented range of motion. This results in more choice and control over work postures.

Gesture headrest range of motion:

15 cm range of height adjustment
10 cm of forward and backward pivot movement
90° of rotation

Technology is the single greatest force driving the changes in the way we work, live and behave.

Gesture is the first office chair that inspired by the human body. Designed to support our interactions with today’s technologies.

WHAT WE LEARNED

While technology boosts productivity, it can cause pain that disrupts our work, our ability to concentrate, and our creativity.

How might we design an office chair as advanced as today’s technology? A chair that augments our technology?

Range of Users

From body size and shape to gender and generation, each play a role in the sitting preference of each individual.

How might we support all users yet meet the postural preferences that exist within the workplace?

RANGE OF SPACES

We see work being done in a greater range of spaces within the office. We’re spending equal amounts of time at our desk as we are in collaborative spaces. We’re sharing desks, where one day a larger person might be using a chair and the next day a much smaller person.

How might we solve for multiple users sitting in multiple spaces throughout a day?