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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


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 and devices that prioritize customer well-being. Some were selected in the Calm Tech Institute’s first certification process, while others are from my own personal shopping cart. All of them are designed along Principles of Calm Technology to respect attention while reducing stress and cognitive load. They also happen to make thoughtful gifts f
Amber Case
Dec 5, 2024


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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