Announcing Calm Tech Certified™ and the First Class of Certified Products
Today we're excited to announce the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a certification program designed to help companies create products that
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Amber Case
Sep 12
A Physical Key to Digital Balance: Unpluq's Innovative Approach to Screen Time
The Calm Tech Institute sat down with Caroline Cadwell, CEO of Unpluq.
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Amber Case
Mar 19
Creating Calm Tech Experiences
Humans and technology have worked alongside each other for thousands of years. It is only recently that technology has been forcing...
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Amber Case
Jan 9
Why We Need a Future Where Technology is Calm
The Japanese translation of the book Calm Technology. Everyday we suffer a physical toll from the stress of poorly designed technology,...
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Amber Case
Jul 10, 2023
How to Identify “Truthy” Tech Trends
Telling Alexa to tell a branded sink to dispense a robotic-amount of water in Amazon’s Smart Home of the Future. Image credit: Mashable...
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Amber Case
Mar 28, 2023
How Design is Governance
Coffeeshop governance through rearranging tables like Tetris blocks (Case + MJ5). I’m writing this post from a brand new coffee shop in a...
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Amber Case
Oct 16, 2020
Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
In the early 90s, I remember dozens of Radio Shack trips with my dad. We were always making little hobby projects, and we’d refill on...
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Amber Case
Oct 2, 2018
False Alarms & Alert Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Bad Design on the Healthcare System
And five solutions to help improve it I visited my dad as much as possible in 2016. He was battling Burkett’s Lymphoma and a number of...
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Amber Case
Sep 15, 2017
FTP045: Amber Case – Calm Technology and Human-Machine Interactions
Amber Case on Building Unintrusive Technology While many tech futurists argue for humans merging with machines as a utopian vision of the...
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