Transition Areas: Fostering Promising Spatial Welcomes
Transitioning from outside to inside or from one zone outdoors or indoors to another is a big deal psychologically and it’s an experience that design can elevate, or not. Cognitive scientists have investigated many space transition-related topics, and applying their findings in practice makes positive transitions more probable than negative ones.
Collaboration Spaces: Designing to Support Teamwork
For many groups, effective collaboration is a prerequisite for success. Neuroscience-based design keeps colleagues—in offices, healthcare facilities, schools, and elsewhere—effectively working toward common goals.
Choices: How, Who, What, When, Why, and Where
Social scientists have developed a rich understanding of how people make choices—and clients, users, and designers all make decisions. Designers who know how decisions get made are more likely to produce places and things that enhance both human wellbeing and performance.
Finding a Way to Wayfinding Solutions
Traveling from place to place can be physically and mentally challenging. Researchers have thoroughly explored how architecture, interior design, and signage can help us keep moving toward our intended destinations—and minimize our stress levels along the way.
Fine-Tuning Circadian Lighting
Demystifying circadian stimulus
National Culture: Design Repercussions
Culture-blind design is not a good idea
Sitting Time and Shared Spaces
A more nuanced "cure" for workplace sitting
Psychiatric Hospital Patient Density: Implications
Patients per room and aggression linked
Perceived Urban Stress
Stressed, by design
Encouraging Healthy Eating
Sound and food choices
Improving Urban Experiences
Spaces that are simultaneously good and bad
Working in a High-Performance Building
Making high performance work at work
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life
Linking lives lived and design
Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making
Tools to enrich designers’ problem solving processes