CALM TECHNOLOGY: PRINCIPLES AND PATTERNS FOR NON-INTRUSIVE DESIGN
What is it?
How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time.
How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time.
Who is it for?
This book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers.
This book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers.
What can it do?
Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things.
You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive.
Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things.
You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive.