22 Crucial Considerations: Workplace Design
Neuroscientists have extensively studied how workplace design can optimize both user performance
Enhance Experience
Designing for Tasting
Physical design can influence how things taste, literally. Cognitive science research has tied p
Curvy Routes Preferred
Curvy seems both better and shorter
Feeling Crowded
Design elements that make a difference
Daylighting and Perceived Temperature
Intensities related
Activity-Based Workplace Design Guide
Practical tool to resolve important issues
Experiencing Music (10-28-19)
Greer and team studied how music influences humans emotionally. They report that “Musical features related to dynamics [loudness], register, rhythm, and harmony were found to be particularly helpful in predicting these human [emotional] reactions.” In other words, particular aspects of music influence how we think and behave in certain ways.
Lynch Today (10-23-19)
Park and Evans assessed the current relevance of Lynch’s work. They share that “Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City (1960) identified five physical elements—path, edge, district, node, and landmark—that are the building blocks of place. Both the physical and sociocultural function of these elements, along with their locations, affects how we comprehend (legibility) and generate meaning of place (imageability). . . . dependence on LBS [location-based services, online applications that reflect users’ geographic locations and include navigation apps . . local weather functions. . .
Preferred Music (10-22-19)
Gold and colleagues establish that with music, as with other sensory stimuli, sometimes not straying too far from expectations is best. The researchers found that “as music manipulates patterns of melody, rhythm, and more, it proficiently exploits our expectations. Given the importance of anticipating and adapting to our ever-changing environments, making and evaluating uncertain predictions can have strong emotional effects.
Horizons and Abstract/Concrete Thinking (10-21-19)
Roose and colleagues studied how the position of horizons in images influence thought processes. They report that “when consumers adopt an abstract processing style (broad perspective), they attach more weight to the advantages of a remote situation . . . and they exhibit increased moral behavior . . . and willingness to pay. . . .
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