Useful Design Principles

This work is a classic because its discussion of the visceral experience of environments is simultaneously thorough, philosophical, and lyrical.

LEDs can produce light in a variety of colors.

Rudd, Vohs, and Aaker specifically investigated the psychological implications of feeling awed. 

Researchers have found additional links between metaphorical expressions and how we live in our physical world. 

Researchers at Baylor have collected additional evidence regarding the ways in which place communicates nonverbally.

Research conducted by Sreedhari Desai and Francesca Gino confirms the importance of the nonverbal cues we find in our physical environment.  

Recent research links traveling through doorways and forgetting.

Costa investigated the tendency of people to sit in the same seat each time they are in a public space.

Recent research indicates that brief, brisk (but not running) walks can enhance our ability to remember things. 

Research by Shibata and colleagues reaffirms that designers developing places where Smart Phones and similar tools will be used frequently should create spaces that do not contribute to visual exhaustion and, ideally, are restorative.