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Calm Technology
Amber Case
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Description for Calm Technology
Paperback. This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing the user's attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the user's periphery most of the time. You'll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and don't get in the way of a user's life. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: UYZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
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. 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. This ... Read more
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. 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. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
O´Reilly Media, Inc, USA United States
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
225g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9781491925881
SKU
V9781491925881
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About Amber Case
Amber Case studies the symbiotic interactions between humans and machines -- and considers how our values and culture are being shaped by living lives increasingly mediated by high technology.Case's 2010 TED talk on technology and the new version of homo sapiens has over 1.2 million views; she keynoted SXSW in 2012 and speaks regularly at conferences and workshops all over ... Read more
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