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Designing Tech That (Finally) Respects Our Time & Humanity | Announcing The Calm Tech Institute

The Calm Tech Institute is a new design organization creating standards for technology which respects time and attention.

May 21

Designing Tech That (Finally) Respects Our Time & Humanity | Announcing The Calm Tech Institute

May 21

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How Design is Governance

Design not only shapes how a product or service will be used, but also restricts or frustrates people’s existing or emergent choices.

Mar 30, 2023

How Design is Governance

Mar 30, 2023

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Apple’s Approach to AI Should Rewrite the Industry’s Expectations for the Technology

Apple’s recently-announced but belated embrace of AI is being called “boring” by some fans of ChatGPT. My perspective is somewhat different…

6d ago

Apple’s Approach to AI Should Rewrite the Industry’s Expectations for the Technology

6d ago

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Why We Need a Future Where Technology is Calm

When we use technology designed to save us time in disharmony with our environments, gains in convenience are lost to stress.

Jan 9

Why We Need a Future Where Technology is Calm

Jan 9

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How small memos can make large organizational changes

Amber Case is author of Calm Technology and a Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. A frequent design consultant across many…

Dec 7, 2023

How small memos can make large organizational changes

Dec 7, 2023

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Impulse, Notion, Muse: Three ways we respond to events, and how to identify them

Have you ever read a post online that made you extremely upset, then found yourself resorting to negative activity (flame wars, listless…

Nov 20, 2023

Impulse, Notion, Muse: Three ways we respond to events, and how to identify them

Nov 20, 2023

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Calm Tech for Quality Air: How I Turned My Living Space Into a Friendly Spacecraft

When we think about calm technology for homes, it’s easy to imagine a sunlit living space by the ocean or a peaceful meadow, with some…

Oct 12, 2023

Calm Tech for Quality Air: How I Turned My Living Space Into a Friendly Spacecraft

Oct 12, 2023

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Embracing Formal Rituals For Stronger Ideas and Connections

I just spent a summer studying with a group of students at a small college at Cambridge University. There are 31 distinct colleges at…

Sep 13, 2023

Embracing Formal Rituals For Stronger Ideas and Connections

Sep 13, 2023

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Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette

If you’re lucky, you awake in the morning to an overeager puppy who bounds onto your bed with happy yelps and kisses. But tech is…

Aug 17, 2023

Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette

Aug 17, 2023

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Inside the Very Human Origin of the Term “Artificial Intelligence” — And Its Seven Decade…

With so much growing interest and fear around AI, it may be helpful to know some history around the term, how it came to be — and why it…

Aug 8, 2023

Inside the Very Human Origin of the Term “Artificial Intelligence” — And Its Seven Decade…

Aug 8, 2023

Amber Case

Amber Case

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Design advocate, founder of the Calm Technology Institute, speaker and author of Calm Technology. Former Research Fellow at MIT Media Lab and Harvard BKC.

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