Growing Awareness of Natural Fractals
Awareness of the value of designers’ use of visual and audio natural fractal patterns is growing among scientists and informed design clients.
Awareness of the value of designers’ use of visual and audio natural fractal patterns is growing among scientists and informed design clients.
Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School conclude in Driven that human behavior results from the interplay among four subconscious drives.
Healing Gardens, edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, is a comprehensive resource, bringing together many experts to discuss the general issues—and also the fine points—of healing gardens. Martha Tyson’s book, in contrast, concentrates more on the design process of creating a healing garden.
Designers often like to review a project’s performance after completion because it provides information that can help perfect the design, or add value to the firm’s next project. Getting a client to recognize the value of such a review can be more difficult, because the value to the client is harder to quantify. Yet, a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) can facilitate organizational learning by the clients that sponsor it. How can this occur?
Designers often brainstorm. Kavadias and Sommer have investigated training diversity and brainstorming effectiveness.
Miguel Brendl, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Brett Pelham, and Mauricio Carvallo have found an interesting relationship between the first letter of a person’s given name and the products they select as well as the places that they choose to live.
HDR display technology is beginning to become available, and Veitch outlines why it will be an important design tool
Techniques for measuring subjective experience have become classic.
When should evidence-based design influence healthcare projects?
Thousands of children are injured each year as a result of design deficiencies in the built environment.