Calm Tech Pre-Certified™ Logo, a program for tech products that respects human attention and time

Humans experience less stress and better well-being when looking at nature, and this is driven by fractals. 

Tech can communicate, but it doesn’t need to speak

Welcome to a six post series on the Calm Tech Institute’s certification standards! In today’s post, we’ll focus on light , which is...

Graceful failure is overlooked in our many app-based products and services but is now an important differentiator.

Including physical buttons and raised dots for tactile navigation actually amplifies the amazing sensory awareness of hands and fingertips. 

"The same part of my mind that was being used for the my legal document gets swapped out for the complexities of the heater system"

Here’s Why We Think It’s Amazing We’re incredibly excited to award Calm Tech certification to reMarkable Paper Pro , an innovative paper...

With the   launch of Calm Tech Certified™  and the holiday shopping season here , I’m excited to share this directory of great products...

Today we're excited to announce the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a certification program designed to help companies create products that

The Calm Tech Institute sat down with Caroline Cadwell, CEO of Unpluq.

Humans and technology have worked alongside each other for thousands of years. It is only recently that technology has been forcing...

The Japanese translation of the book Calm Technology. Everyday we suffer a physical toll from the stress of poorly designed technology,...

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...

Coffeeshop governance through rearranging tables like Tetris blocks (Case + MJ5). I’m writing this post from a brand new coffee shop in a...

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...

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...

Amber Case on Building Unintrusive Technology While many tech futurists argue for humans merging with machines as a utopian vision of the...