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Calm Technology: Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

February 5, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST

Amber Case

Amber Case

Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.

They are an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, a researcher at the Institute for the Future, and the author of Calm Technology and Designing With Sound. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT’s Center for Civic Media and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential People in Technology, they were named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. They were the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.

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Calm Technology: Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

Speaker: Amber Case
February 5, 2020 at 6:30 pm -9:00 pm
Mozilla Portland Offices

Calm Technology
Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

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.

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential People in Technology, they were named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. They were the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.

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Calm Technology: Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

Speaker: Amber Case
February 5, 2020 at 6:30 pm -9:00 pm
Mozilla Portland Offices

Calm Technology
Designing for the Next Generation of Devices

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.

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential People in Technology, they were named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. They were the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.

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2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff

2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff

Smart Stuff

Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Interactions

This year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.

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AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.

This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.

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2019 Speakers and Events

Cheryl Platz

Cheryl Platz

Cheryl Platz

About the Speaker

Cheryl Platz is the author of Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences and a world-renowned designer whose work on emerging technologies has reached millions of customers across multiple industries. Cheryl’s professional passions include natural user interfaces, applied storytelling in design and research, and taming fierce complexity in any manifestation. In her current full-time role as a Principal UX Designer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cheryl led the service design effort for the yearlong transition to modern remote meetings and human-centered design efforts to define the future of knowledge management at the foundation. Past employers include Amazon (Alexa), Microsoft (Azure, Cortana), Electronic Arts (The Sims, The Urbz), Griptonite Games (Disney Friends), Disney Parks (PhotoPass), and MAYA Design.Cheryl is also Principal and Owner of her own design education firm Ideaplatz, LLC through which she shares her expertise with the global design community via talks, workshops, writing, and limited consulting engagements. She’s delivered her sought-after talks and workshops in 16 countries across five continents.

Website: https://cherylplatz.com
Medium: https://medium.com/@cherylplatz

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February 5, 2020
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Mozilla Portland Offices
1120 NW Couch St #320
Portland, OR 97209 United States
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(650) 903-0800
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