Calm Against Technology

This deck is not a game, but a tool for designing non-invasive products.

The terms “calm computing” and “calm technology” were coined in 1995 by PARC Researchers Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown in reaction to the increasing complexities that information technologies were creating. He felt that the promise of computing systems was that they might “simplify complexities, not introduce new ones.”

Weiser believed that this would lead to an era of “calm technology,” in which technology, rather than panicking us, would help us focus on the things that were really important to us.

The work of Mark Weiser, Rich Gold, and John Seeley Brown was the primary inspiration for us. Their work can help us understand what we need to implement to handle the increasing complexity of the world.

Photo by Pok Rie from Pexels