Calm Tech Principles

  • Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention
  • Technology should inform and create calm
  • Technology should make use of the periphery
  • Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity
  • Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak
  • Technology should work even when it fails
  • The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem
  • Leverage familiar behaviors to introduce new ones

https://www.calmtech.institute/calm-tech-principles