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Calm Technology
Designing for the Internet of
Things
Amber Case
@caseorganic | Caseorganic.com
Calmtechnology.com

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50 Billion
devices will be
online by 2020.
-Cisco

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Sound good?

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Consider…

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The "Smart" Watch

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The "Smart" Fridge

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The Dystopian Kitchen of the Future

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An era of
interruptive
technology

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We need a Calm
Technology

10. Mark Weiser John Seeley Brown
XEROX PARC: mid-90s
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12. The scarce resource in the 21st
Century will not be technology.
It will be attention. - Mark Weiser
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13. The scarce resource in the 21st
Century will not be technology.
It will be attention. - Mark Weiser
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Principles of
Calm
Technology

15. I. Technology shouldn’t require
all of our attention, just some of
it, and only when necessary
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A Tea Kettle

17. II. Technology should empower
the periphery
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18. Hue Lightbulb
connected to a
weather report
@aaronpk 2014
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Weather
Light

19. 1. Machines shouldn't act like humans
2. Humans shouldn't act like machines
III. Technology should amplify the
best of technology and the best
of humanity.
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SleepCycle
Alarm Clock

21. IV. Technology can
communicate, but it doesn’t
need to speak
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22. Buzzes you
when you exhibit
poor posture.
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LUMOBack Smart
Posture Sensor

23. V. The right amount of
technology is the minimum
amount to solve the problem

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Toilet
Occupied
Sign

25. A person's primary task should
not be computing, but being
human.
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26. Good design allows people to
accomplish their goals in the least
amount of moves
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27. Calm Technology allows people to
accomplish the same goals with the
least amount of mental cost
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28. Calm Technology
from O’Reilly books
Available for Pre-Order
http://shop.oreilly.com
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Thank you!
Amber Case
@caseorganic
Caseorganic.com
Calmtech.com