Appleton, WisconsinHuman Products—CDT

“The most profound technologies are those that disappear.
They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”

Mark Weiser·Scientific American·1991

§ 00·Statement

Software that knows when to be quiet.

Human Products is a one-person studio making calm software and tools that sit in the periphery of your life, not the center. Nothing demands. Nothing interrupts. Nothing asks.

What follows is a short note on how we work, and what we are making.

§ I·How we work

How we work.

Six rules of thumb. Written down so we can be held to them.

I. Attention is precious.
We will never ask for more of it than the task requires. A calm tool is one you can forget is running.
II. The periphery is where life is.
Good software informs without interrupting. It waits at the edge of your day and stays out of the middle.
III. Small is a feature.
Tools that do one thing, clearly, for a long time. No roadmap creep. No loyalty programs. No metrics dashboards masquerading as product decisions.
IV. It should work for you, not for us.
Local-first where it matters. Your data is yours: legible, exportable, outlive-us-able.
V. Leave nothing behind.
No dark patterns. No tracking. No accounts you didn't need. No engagement we manufactured.
VI. Delight is restraint with warmth.
A serif in the right place. A sound that plays only once. A blank space we chose not to fill.