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Luminaire

A reading app built for phones and used almost entirely on tablets.

Luminaire — Product, iPad, 2025

Client

Luminaire

Discipline

Product, iPad

Year

2025

Status

Live

The challenge

The layout assumed one hand and a short session. The audience was holding the device with two and staying for an hour.

Every measurement in Luminaire came from a phone: line length, tap targets, the position of the controls. On a tablet it read like a phone screen that had been stretched.

We redrew the reading view for the size people actually use, gave the navigation somewhere to rest under a thumb, and left the phone layout alone — it was already right for the phone.

Luminaire — product screen
Luminaire — interface detail
Luminaire — layout in use

Outcome

Tablet sessions now last as long as the articles do.

It finally behaves like it belongs on the larger screen.

Marta Ek, Editor

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