Bigger Not Better (03-28-11)
Wexler definitely doesn’t feel that bigger is necessarily better and her discussion of McMansion’s is directly relevant to designers.
Wexler definitely doesn’t feel that bigger is necessarily better and her discussion of McMansion’s is directly relevant to designers.
Nanda (American Art Resources) and colleagues Eisen (Texas Christian University) and Owen (East Alabama Medical Center) have investigated the relationship between art viewed by psychiatric patents and their medication use.
Athanasopoulos and his colleagues present additional evidence that the language we speak influences our experience of the world.
People over 50 who garden are more satisfied with their personal lives and level of physical activity than non-gardeners.
Wray Herbert, a well-respected science writer, discusses psychological heuristics in his new book, and some of them are useful to designers.
Designers often ask users questions during the programming process that require comparison, discussion, and selection of options that are either familiar or novel.
Recent work by Casasanto and Chrysikou supports previous work showing that “Right-and left-handers implicitly associate positive ideas like ‘goodness’ and honesty’ more strongly with their dominant side of space, the side on which they can act more fluently, and negative ideas more strongly with their nondominant hand.”
People designing spaces that will be used in emergency situations will be interested in research recently published by Shackman and his colleagues.
The GSA Public Buildings Service has comprehensively reviewed the “benefits and challenges of adopting a range of mobility strategies” and outlined mobility-related workplace design principles.
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and Yale have determined that people place less monetary value on their possessions if they feel more secure interpersonally (i.e., feel accepted and loved by other people).