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Feeling frazzled? Calm technology is what you need to ease your mind and lower stress levels
Hours of screen time and endless alerts? Here's how to cultivate a healthier relationship with tech "Calm technology is about thinking...
Amber Case
Oct 25, 2023


What It Means to Design Technology That’s “Pass-Through”
Windows are the ultimate pass-through technologies. The best example of a technology interface is one you rarely notice — even if it’s...
Amber Case
Jul 25, 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...
Amber Case
Jul 10, 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


Wacom and Design Week Milan: Calm Technology - Blending IoT into Everyday Life
How a Japanese Startup designs a “Calm User Interface” that re-defines the daily human-digital interaction in the smart home. You get up....
Amber Case
Jun 11, 2022


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 16, 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 15, 2017
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