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Why Blue Light Is So Bad: The Science — And Some Solutions

WebPhoto via Wikimedia Commons. Artificial blue light, the kind associated with LED and screen-based OLED illumination, operates on a different level of the spectrum, in the …

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Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED

WebPictured: Blue, red and green LED lights. PiccoloNamek on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The breakthrough for blue LEDs occured in the early 1990s, and the …

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The Future of Decentralized Healthcare:

WebThe Problems. There are so many issues with our current health system, it’s hard to know where to start. One major flaw is that there is no universal standard for …

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Why We Need to Know Cybernetics // Part I

WebCoined by MIT mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener in a 1948 book of the same name, cybernetics draws from insights he developed while creating …

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Why the Color of Technology Must Change

WebHarvard researchers and their colleagues conducted an experiment comparing the effects of 6.5 hours of exposure to blue light, versus exposure to green …

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How to Identify “Truthy” Tech Trends by Amber Case Medium

WebFuture med tech is always blue and has exciting robot arms in a glass-walled room! Any time the latest movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise debuts, I enjoy …

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Google Begins Adopting Calm Technology Design Principles

WebDigital Wellbeing is a new Google initiative which aims to help people “better understand their tech usage, focus on what matters most, disconnect when needed, and …

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False Alarms & Alert Fatigue: The Hidden Cost of Bad Design on

WebDoctors and Nurses experience thousands of alarms a day. Nuisance alerts make up over 90% of pediatric ICU alarms and over 70% of adult ICU alarms.. Alerts …

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Amber Case – Medium

WebRead writing from Amber Case on Medium. Design advocate, speaker and author of Calm Technology. Former Research Fellow at MIT Media Lab and Harvard BKC.

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Designing Our Way Out of Non-Places by Amber Case

WebThis still from Jacques Tati’s 1967 masterpiece Playtime perfectly visualizes what I mean by a non-place. The film is a 50 year old satirical look at an everyday future …

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Designing Automation Systems to Be Calm: Five Principles

WebThe web is easy to analyze because every click and key tap can be captured. The real world requires countless sensors, but there will never be enough to calculate …

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Why We Need to Know Cybernetics // Part II

WebPetNet’s feeding system was filled with issues and could have benefited from a systems design approach. In the first post of this series, we conducted a short survey …

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Is Your Product Designed to Be Calm

WebBy Amber Case. Since I started speaking about calm technology and designing with attention, designers and developers often ask me if a particular product …

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Why gesture-based interfaces haven’t lived up to the hype

WebMinority Report — 2002. A recent Twitter discussion on the hidden costs of touchscreens inevitably led to the question of gesture-based user interfaces. Or, as the …

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

WebCreating a storage and temporary livng space out of a pool pump room. I recently dealt with this challenge myself. Since I’m frequently traveling and far away from …

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Work, Automation, Cyborgs: Why Japan’s Present is Our Future

WebAs an example of our cyborg future, consider exoskeletons, like the one depicted above, already in regular use in the factories of Japan. It suggests one solution …

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When Technology Fails, Who’s Responsible

WebThe assumption that cloud services are 100% reliable still persists to this day, especially in the design of internet of things devices, which often depend on them.But …

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Watch: Calm Tech UX & Inclusive Design Principles at Microsoft

WebAfter a number of interviews and workshops about attention and notification fatigue, I worked with Microsoft to help adapt some of Calm Tech principles into their …

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