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Investments in human resources, materials, real estate, and tooling are rapidly becoming more expensive.  Both designers and their clients are finding it more and more important to base design-decision making on rigorous research into how people relate to the manmade and natural worlds.  In addition, using insights derived from research to inform design decisions creates a competitive advantage that increases the perceived value of design services. Research Design Connections supplies the knowledge resources design professionals need to develop exceptional places and objects, valued by both clients and users.

Research Design Connections  (RDC) distills the essence of high-quality recent research and translates it from “science-ease” into everyday language.  We share this information with subscribers in a quarterly electronic newsletter and in our archive of past articles. With Research Design Connections you can:

•   Learn practical applications of current research studies       
  
•   Benefit from the insights of distinguished practitioners, and
•   Gather successful design ideas from in-depth project reviews. 

Research Design Connections helps you and your team:

•      Keep on top of the expanding field of research-based design
•      Meet more of your clients needs
•      Create better built environments, and
•      Benefit from cost-effective, proven design solutions

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The Research Design Connections Process

1. Scour current academic publications and professional databases,
2. Select the articles that are useful and recruit proven experts as guest columnists,
3. Extract and integrate the essence of these articles, emphasizing how article results and conclusions can inform practical design solutions,
4. Present this information in straightforward text, figures, tables, and images,
5. Provide the complete references for the sources we use, so you always know where to go for more information, and
6. Update its blog 5 times a week with timely research related news – available to subscribers and non-subscribers. 

Why We Launched Research Design Connections

Research Design Connections (RDC) is a newsletter for busy professionals who create and manage places or design objects. As an experienced design professional, you know the knowledge base of your field is constantly changing.  To do your best work you need to keep on top of new information and emerging trends.  Valuable insights, useful examples, and innovative ideas often come from successful projects and relevant research.  We comprehensively cover new research and practitioner best practices  for people like us who want to capitalize on the benefits of research-based design. 

RDC is supported by a distinguished editorial board with hundreds of collective years of design experience, so you receive critical, useful news, trends, and information.

Research Design Connections provides the latest information about the ways physical environments and objects can be designed to, for example:

•  Enhance productivity
•  Increase creativity
•  Improve health
•  Reduce stress
•  Support people’s welfare
•  Create more effective spaces for learning
•  Generate consumer value 

Recent articles have covered research related to the design of, for example:

•  Workplaces
•  Health care facilities
•  Healing gardens
•  Stores and restaurants
•  Urban places and neighborhoods
•  Parks and green spaces
•  Schools and playgrounds
•  Homes
•  Museums and zoos 

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Here is a sample of the journals and sources we review to present pertinent, current design-related information:

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Aging and Mental Health

American Demographics

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

American Journal of Public Health

APA Monitor (American Psychological Association)

Applied Ergonomics

Architectural Record

ASHRAE Journal

Building and Environment

Building Research and Information

Built Environment

Design Studies

Disability and Society

Early Childhood Education

Empirical Studies of the Arts

Energy and Buildings

Environment and Behavior

Environment and Planning

Environmental Science and Technology

Ergonomics

Geographical Analysis

The Gerontologist

Health Forum Journal

Hospital Development

Human Factors

Indoor+Built Environment

ITE Journal (Institute of Transportation Engineers)

Journal of Advanced Academics

Journal of Architectural and Planning Research

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Business Research

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Journal of Housing for the Elderly

Journal of Marketing

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration

Journal of Planning Literature

Journal of Urban Affairs

Journal of Urban Design

Landscape and Urban Planning

Landscape Architect and Specifier News

Landscape Research

Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Music and Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior and Physiology

Patient Education and Counseling

Pediatrics

Planning

Preventive Medicine

Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers – Transportation

Public Works

Psychology of Aesthetics

Psychological Science

School Planning and Management

Transportation Quarterly

TFM (Today’s Facility Manager)

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

World Journal of Surgery

Yale Law Journal

Countless web sites

Pertinent conference proceedings

 

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