Announcing the Web 1.0 Conference!

The Web 1.0 Conference is a celebration of old style static websites. It’s a place where you can trade your unused domain names then develop them the next day!

A conference celebrating the creative, original, static (no backend) web sites, both old and new, that stand the test of time. It’s time to rediscover and bring back the lost art of web site creation. Let’s build some weird, interesting, quirky web sites!

Location

• Vadio

• 919 SW Taylor St.

• Portland, OR 97205

Website

http://websiteconf.neocities.org/

Description A conference celebrating the creative, original, static (no backend) web sites, both old and new, that stand the test of time. It’s time to rediscover and bring back the lost art of web site creation. Let’s build some weird, interesting, quirky web sites!

Schedule!

Friday, Nov 6th ,2015

• 5:30PM Check in

• 6:00PM Lightning talks begin

• 7:00PM Real world domain name exchange Have some domain names you own you’ll never do anything with? Bring them to trade with others!

• 8:30PM Friday closing

Saturday, Nov 7th, 2015

• 9:00AM Check in, breakfast, 玉露

• 9:30AM 15-20 minute talks

• 11:00AM Web site building / hacking begins

• 12:30PM Lunch is served

• 3:00PM Afternoon snack

• 6:00PM Web site hacking ends

• 6:15PM 2 minute presentations begin. Show everyone your awesome web creation!

• 7:30PM Closing

Tickets

Registration Tickets are $10, which covers expenses.

• Don’t have a web provider?

• New to making websites?

• Free web hosting will be provided by Neocities!

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Calm Technology and Designing with Sound Workshops at PNCA on 11/12 and 11/18!

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be hosting two workshops at Portland’s Pacific Northwest College of Art in November 2018! I just joined the school as a faculty researcher, and I’m looking forward to contributing to MAKE+THINK+CODE, a creative technology-focussed lab, institute, and incubator for creative experiments at the intersection of science, technology, design, art, and culture.

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Workshop Details

Designing Calm Technology

Mon, November 12, 2018 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-calm-technology-cte542-tickets-49049799270

Description Calm Technology is a framework for designing ubiquitous devices that engage our attention in an appropriate manner. The aim of Calm Technology is to provide principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it away.

The difference between an annoying technology and one that is helpful is how it engages our attention. This workshop will cover how to use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices. We’ll look at notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and designing for the least amount of cognitive overhead.

Structure and activities Students will work in groups to solve a series of design challenges, including designing new products, ‘calming down’ a complex ones, communicating the principles of Calm Technology across an organization and team, and entering a product successfully into the marketplace.

You’ll learn how to:

• Use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices.

• Design appropriate notification systems into both physical and software products

• Communicate the principles of Calm Technology to your across your organization and team

• Use methods of Calm Technology to design technology for generations, not seasons.

• Enter your product successfully into the marketplace.

This workshop is for anyone that actively builds or makes decisions about technology, especially user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors, developers and students interested in the future of technology and humanity.

Bringing a laptop is not required, as work will be done on paper and in groups.

We have a limited number of scholarships for our workshops. If you need an application, please send an email to mtc@pnca.edu with your complete name and contact information.

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Calm Technology at IoT Fuse Conference in Minneapolis!

Part of my Calm Technology Book Tour this year will take me to the IoT Fuse Conference in Minneapolis, MN!

Now in its second year, IOT Fuse, a Minnesota-based conference to spark the Internet of Things, is an event focused on uniting doers, makers and hackers with executives, entrepreneurs and innovators.

I’ll be presenting the opening keynote speech on Friday, April 22 from 8:15am – 9:30am. The World Is Not a Desktop.

Speech Description How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? Amber Case 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. 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. We’ll discuss the importance and challenge of designing technology that respects our attention, principles of calm design—peripheral attention, context, and ambient awareness and calm communication patterns—improving attention through a variety of senses.

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