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The Jawbone Up
The Jawbone Up has a single button and a colored status light. The device can be set to buzz after a short nap or at the optimum sleep cycle
Amber Case
Mar 2, 2024


Tactile Paving
Japan’s tactile strips use raised bumps to let passengers know they’re too close of the train platform.
Amber Case
Mar 2, 2024


The Light Switch
A light switch contains the complexity and danger of electricity and allows for a simple on/off function.
Amber Case
Mar 1, 2024


The Footpull
A foot pull makes takes a simple metal plate and turns it into an affordance usable by an extra limb.
Amber Case
Mar 1, 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


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 26, 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 26, 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 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


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 12, 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 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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