ResMed’s S9 Series, designed by Blue Sky, revolutionises the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) by delivering one of the highest quality, best-featured, most-comfortable, user-friendly, most portable, consumer-looking Automatic Positive Airway Pressure devices to the market. The S9 Series introduces new benchmarks in blower size, noise reduction, improved usability and a breakthrough in comfort with fully Automatic Climate Control. These significant innovations combined with consumer aesthetics have improved user experiences and increased compliance to therapy. Clinical results showed users enjoyed 30 minutes more sleep with the S9 compared to their previous device, creating a measurable difference in their sleep, health, well-being and lifestyle.

The key criteria in the design were to create a more more intuitive, inviting, stylish, consumer-looking design. The simplified user interface design, with large colour display and shallow, easy-to-navigate menu structure, provides faster setup, easy-to-read patient feedback and improved motivation/compliance, through innovations including an intelligent dial that automatically maps to the users navigation direction and a new Sleep Quality menu that displays daily usage, mask fit and Apnoea-Hypopnoea Index results at the push of a button.

The customer-led design process resulted in an Austrialian Design Award and Red Dot Award winning product which changed the landscape of APAP devices.