We are all cyborgs now.
On how our tools are becoming extensions of memory, identity, and thought.
We are all cyborgs now.
On how our tools are becoming extensions of memory, identity, and thought.
Futurespaces · 2024
Designing Calm TechnologyA conversation on applying calm technology principles to built environments and the future of space design.
AIGA Conference · 2016
Calm Technology: Embracing the Periphery in DesignHow the eight principles of calm technology can guide designers building connected devices, notification systems, and ambient interfaces.
Thinking Digital Conference · 2015
Calm TechnologyOn designing technology that respects human attention — from disruptive, always-on interfaces to systems that work alongside us.
TED · 2010
We Are All Cyborgs NowHow our mobile devices are changing the nature of the self, memory, and what it means to be human. Over 2 million views.
Designers work with materials — steel, wood, pixels, code. Attention is also a material. It is finite, it fatigues, and it can be wasted.
The kitchen is where most people have their most intimate relationships with technology. It is also where those relationships are least examined.
When we create designs, we are defining what is possible — and what is discouraged. Design is policy made physical.
Calm Tech Institute · 2025
Designing Sensory EnvironmentsA workshop for architects, hospitality designers, and event producers on applying the CTI Spaces certification criteria to built environments.
Calm Tech Institute · 2025
Embodied Design IntensiveA two-day intensive on haptic design, tactile feedback, and designing for the body's sensory systems — mechanoreceptors, proprioception, and the somatic marker hypothesis.
Speed is a design choice. So is slowness. Notes on what gets built when you stop optimizing for immediate response.
What we lose when screens become frictionless — and what it would mean to design surfaces that push back.
How our tools become extensions of cognition — and what that means for the way we design them.
Latest Book
On haptic feedback, mechanoreceptors, and the case for purposeful friction in how we design physical and digital interfaces.
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