Benefits of Buying Good Design (11-08-12)
Selecting products that are well designed seems to reaffirm a person’s positive opinions about themselves.
Selecting products that are well designed seems to reaffirm a person’s positive opinions about themselves.
Environmental psychologists are not place-deterministic, they understand that many factors influence experience in a space.
What sort of premium do people pay for living near iconic architecture, such as a Frank Lloyd Wright home?
Designers are often called upon to be creative, and some also may live in several countries during the course of their lives.
A recent study at the University of Michigan supports co-locating team members.
Nugent provides many practical suggestions for the design of residential common areas that college students are likely to use.
The American Planning Association (APA) has announced its 2012 Great Places in America at https://www.planning.org/greatplaces/.
The Signage Foundation shares, at the web address below, a report on the economic value derived from on-premise signs.
Research Design Connections regularly discusses how aspects of personality, for example extraversion-introversion, influence supportive place design.
Many recent workplace design projects encourage work outside company owned/rented office buildings and the increasing number of distributed teams means that some work groups have little or no face-to-face contact with each other.