Calm Technology at the University of Oregon’s What is Media Conference, April 16th, 2016!

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the University of Oregon’s What is Media conferenceon Saturday, April 16th 2016 at 9:40am! My talk will be on Calm Design: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Media.

Thursday, April 14th

• Pre-Conference Roundtable

• Conference kick-off and 2016 Johnston Lecture

• Opening Exhibition and Reception

Friday, April 15th

• Lunch; coffee service and refreshmentsReception

• Northwest Film Center in the Portland Art Museum

Saturday, April 16th

• Lunch; coffee service and refreshments

• Closing Reception

Full Schedule

Location

The conference and exhibition take place at the University of Oregon in Portland, located in the historic White Stag Block of the city’s Old Town at 70 NW Couch St., Portland, Oregon, 97209.

Register for the Conference!

Want to go? Register here for What is Media! A student ticket costs $25, and general admission is $100.

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"Calm Technology" evolves with inspiration from the 1000-year-old capital

Photograph: Shinshi Misa for WIRED Japan

Calm Technology is a design approach that allows people to be more human. Its support is quietly but surely spreading around the world. In November, Amber Case, founder of Calm Tech Institute, visited Kyoto to report on the opening of the institute's first overseas base and the launch of a new certification program.

"A good tool is like a hammer: The hammer doesn't do anything. We use the hammer, and when we use it well, it becomes an extension of our hand. But a lot of technology today is like a lever that a lab rat has to push, and it always wants us to push something," says Amber Case.

The mui board developed by mui Lab. Photograph: Shinshi Misa

There were three objectives for this visit to Kyoto. The first was to directly teach the idea of ​​​​"Calm Technology" to mui Lab employees and their clients. The second was to present the mui board with a certificate of the " Calm Tech Certified™" program, which had just been launched the previous month . The third was to announce that the Calm Tech Institute's first overseas base would be established within the Kyoto mui Lab.

Read more at Wired Japan

August 23rd, 2016: Calm Technology Reading at UX Book Club PDX!

I’m speaking at Portland, Oregon’s UX Book Club on Calm Tech on Tuesday, August 23rd at Puppet Labs!

This will be my last talk before I leave for Harvard!

If you don’t have a book yet, you can pick one up on Amazon($19.70) or through O’Reilly books ($24.99). I’ll also have a few early release copies to sign and sell.

There’s still room at Puppet Labs for the talk! RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/UX-Book-Club-PDX/events/232435683/

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