Keynote: Calm Technology: Design for the Next 50 Billion Things
summary
Argues that attention is the scarce resource as billions of devices arrive and lays out concrete design rules: keep notifications peripheral first, compress info into ambient signals (Hue weather bulb, Roomba tones), prefer local processing and graceful degradation so devices still work offline (criticizes PetNet outage and smart fridges), and build human+machine feedback loops (crowdsourced tissue scanning) instead of pretending AI is flawless. Recommends minimum features and long-lived, maintainable systems.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:11Calm Technology
- 6:55Interruptive Technology
- 10:12Design Principles
- 10:46Peripheral Attention
- 11:34Ambient Awareness
- 12:26High Resolution
- 13:11cybernetic feedback loop
- 14:12universal tonal language
- 15:37Roomba
- 16:04Social Norms
- 18:17Minimum Tech
- 22:34Kairos Time
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