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Sensory Starvation: Why Our Brains Crave Natural Materials
Humans experience less stress and better well-being when looking at nature, and this is driven by fractals.
Amber Case
Mar 20
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Beyond the Beep: Sound as a Core Principle in Calm Design
Tech can communicate, but it doesn’t need to speak
Amber Case
Mar 4
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The Color of “The Future” Isn’t Calm: The Problem with Bright Blue Indicator Lights
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...
Amber Case
Feb 19
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Designing Products for Resilience & Graceful Failure
Graceful failure is overlooked in our many app-based products and services but is now an important differentiator.
Amber Case
Feb 13
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Your Hands Have Eyes, Too! Engaging Peripheral Attention
Including physical buttons and raised dots for tactile navigation actually amplifies the amazing sensory awareness of hands and fingertips.
Amber Case
Feb 6
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When 10 Seconds Means 23 Minutes: The Attention Costs of Bad Design
"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"
Amber Case
Jan 23
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reMarkable Paper Pro Earns Calm Tech Certification
Here’s Why We Think It’s Amazing We’re incredibly excited to award Calm Tech certification to reMarkable Paper Pro , an innovative paper...
Amber Case
Dec 17, 2024
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Calm Tech Gift Guide
With the launch of Calm Tech Certified™ and the holiday shopping season here , I’m excited to share this directory of great products...
Amber Case
Dec 5, 2024
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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
Amber Case
Oct 29, 2024
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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.
Amber Case
Sep 12, 2024
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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...
Amber Case
Mar 19, 2024
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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,...
Amber Case
Jan 9, 2024
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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...
Amber Case
Jul 11, 2023
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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...
Amber Case
Mar 28, 2023
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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...
Amber Case
Oct 17, 2020
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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...
Amber Case
Oct 2, 2018
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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...
Amber Case
Sep 16, 2017
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