Calm technology : principles and patterns for non-intrusive design / Amber Case.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Case, Amber, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Product design.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Principles and patterns for non-intrusive design

Place of Publication:

Beijing, [China] : O'Reilly, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers. You’ll learn: The importance and challenge of designing technology that respects our attention Principles of calm design—peripheral attention, context, and ambient awareness Calm communication patterns—improving attention through a variety of senses Exercises for improving existing products through calm technology Principles and patterns of calm technology for companies and teams The origins of calm technology at Xerox PARC

Contents:

[ Preface ]; Designing for the Next 50 Billion Devices ; Four Waves of Computing; The Next 50 Billion Devices ; The Future of Technology ; Conclusions; Principles of Calm Technology; The Limited Bandwidth of Our Attention; Principles of Calm Technology; Conclusions; Calm Communication Patterns; Status Indicators; Ambient Awareness; Contextual Notifications ; Persuasive Technology ; Conclusions; Exercises in Calm Technology; A Calm Interaction Evaluation Tool; Exercises ; Conclusions; Calm Technology in Your Organization; Building Teams for Calm Technology; Design for Privacy

Selling Calm Technology to Managers Entering a Product into Human Society: A Calm Product Launch; Conclusions; The History and Future of Calm Technology; Videoconferencing Before Skype; The Beginnings of Calm Technology ; [ Index ]

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 1, 2016).

ISBN:

9781491925836

1491925833

9781491925874

1491925876

9781491925850

149192585X

OCLC:

933908760