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SingaporeMay 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the winners of the 2026 German Red Dot Design Award were officially announced. Sunmi Technology’s five products — the CPad Commercial Tablet, CPad PAY Financial Tablet, FLEX 3 Commercial Interactive Display, V3 Smart POS Terminal, and L3 Industrial-Grade PDA — all received awards, sweeping multiple Red Dot Design Awards. This fully demonstrates Sunmi’s robust capabilities in product aesthetics, practical user experience, and scenario-based innovation, while also allowing the brand’s deeply rooted human-centered design, green sustainable development, and commercial ecosystem thinking to shine on the international stage.
As the “Oscar” of global industrial design, the Red Dot Design Award is renowned for its rigorous judging process, comprehensively evaluating dimensions such as aesthetic creativity, ergonomics, scenario adaptability, and sustainability. This time, Sunmi’s award-winning products cover the entire commercial track, including industrial handhelds, food delivery payment terminals, modular interactive displays, and lightweight payment solutions, fully showcasing the brand’s underlying design logic, which starts from real-world scenario pain points and integrates industrial reliability, user experience, and long-term value.
Anchoring Human-Centered Needs, Empowering Real Commercial Operations with Full-Scenario Design
The entire series of award-winning products consistently embodies Sunmi’s core philosophy: “Starting from users’ usage needs, insisting on long-term harmonious coexistence between products and the environment.” Sunmi’s design never confines itself to mere appearance refinement or feature stacking; it always roots itself in frontline commercial scenarios, taking users’ operating habits, physical sensations, and business pain points as the design origin, ensuring that functionality, structure, and tactile feel all serve efficient commercial operations.
- CPad Series: The CPad Commercial Tablet abandons the industry’s outdated approach of repurposing consumer tablets, instead being natively designed based on commercial needs. It supports multiple uses in one device, flexibly combining different modular accessories to adapt to diverse business scenarios for various merchants. The CPad PAY Payment Tablet integrates all payment functions — scanning, financial transactions, and NFC reading — into one unit, eliminating redundant external accessories from traditional checkout counters. The body structure optimizes grip stability and card operation experience, streamlining complex equipment and simplifying in-store operational processes to maximize store space. Additionally, this series is equipped with AI reading capabilities and customizable expansion options, truly achieving out-of-the-box usability while balancing merchant costs and long-term business expansion.
- FLEX 3 Commercial Interactive Display: With a Lego-like modular design, it directly addresses merchants’ pain points of difficult equipment adaptation and cumbersome installation, allowing for freely combinable personalized solutions that suit various installation scenarios. The minimalist body features hidden interfaces, a universal compatible structure, and an eco-friendly aluminum alloy casing, enabling rapid deployment and long-term reuse.
- L3 Industrial-Grade PDA: Breaking the stereotype of heavy and bulky industrial devices, it combines the comfortable experience of a consumer-grade large screen with industrial-grade attributes such as drop resistance, waterproofing, explosion-proofing, and long battery life. A scientifically designed center of gravity, dual side shortcut keys, and a variety of adaptable accessories significantly reduce fatigue during high-frequency operations, achieving a perfect balance of stability, reliability, and user-friendly handling.
- V3 Smart POS Terminal: Natively adapted for high-frequency food delivery order printing scenarios, it features an upgraded large paper roll to reduce replacement frequency, integrating scanning, payment, receipt and label dual printing, and NFC payment capabilities into a full-chain solution. The body balances a large screen view with handheld stability, optimizing grip comfort, and upgrading from a single payment device to a one-stop food delivery business platform.
Staying True to Design Principles, Deepening Commercial Fields with ESG Sustainability and Humanistic Care
Winning top international design awards consecutively is not a flash in the pan but an inevitable outcome of Sunmi’s long-term design approach. The brand’s steady progress and repeated accolades in industrial design stem from its deeply embedded foresight, humanistic care, and ESG sustainable development philosophy throughout the entire chain.
Sunmi integrates its core philosophy throughout the entire product development process: rooting itself at the frontline to understand the real pain points of merchants and users, ensuring all design details serve smooth operations and efficient business management; embedding ESG sustainable development into the source of product design, using modular and reusable structures to extend equipment lifecycles, reduce material waste, and lower merchants’ long-term usage costs, perfectly fulfilling the commitment to “long-term harmonious coexistence between products and the environment” and achieving a symbiotic relationship among equipment, business operations, and the natural environment; adhering to the design philosophy of “form follows function,” using native commercial design and integrated innovation to resolve the industry’s pain point of fragmented equipment, supporting the long-term growth of commercial ecosystems.
The Red Dot honor is both recognition and a new starting point. In the future, Sunmi Technology will continue to uphold its human-centered design principles, anchored by user needs and guided by ESG sustainability standards, persistently exploring the boundaries of commercial industrial design, and empowering global business operations with warm, valuable, and green long-lasting products.