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Calm Technology

Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design

Amber Case

O'Reilly, 2016

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Omnipresent technology can overwhelm the people who use it. Cyborg anthropologist and designer Amber Case insists that technology must become more respectful of people's time and attention. She describes the “principles and patterns” of so-called calm technology, provides tools and real-world examples of technology that fails to account for the human element, and discusses how to design this technology to interact more effectively with people.

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“Calm technology” is made up of a series of design “principles and patterns” that focus on how humans interact with the sensory world directly and peripherally.
Tech designers often fail to account for the human element, resulting in products that are distracting and difficult to use.
Calm technology should be an essential design philosophy as society enters the fourth stage of computing: distributed computing.

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Cyborg anthropologist and user-experience designer Amber Case studies how new technologies increasingly shape people’s values and culture.

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