Description:How can we use technology as tools instead of letting our technology use us? 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.Old systems and bad interfaces will plague us if we don t learn how to design for the long term. By writing code that s small instead of large, and making simple systems rather than complex ones, we can begin to design technology that gets out of our way.Discover principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it awayDelve into types of alerts, product launch, "calming" technology, and tech that smoothly enters people s livesLearn from a trained anthropologist and a technology hobbyist who sits on the edge between technology and how people use itThis book is ideal for anyone who actively builds or makes decisions about technology, including user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things. To get started finding Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Release
2016
ISBN
1491925884
Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things
Description: How can we use technology as tools instead of letting our technology use us? 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.Old systems and bad interfaces will plague us if we don t learn how to design for the long term. By writing code that s small instead of large, and making simple systems rather than complex ones, we can begin to design technology that gets out of our way.Discover principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it awayDelve into types of alerts, product launch, "calming" technology, and tech that smoothly enters people s livesLearn from a trained anthropologist and a technology hobbyist who sits on the edge between technology and how people use itThis book is ideal for anyone who actively builds or makes decisions about technology, including user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things. To get started finding Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.