Benefits of Cutting Visual Clutter (09-23-16)
Sabine Kastner, a psychology professor at Princeton, has found that visual clutter impedes professional performance.
Sabine Kastner, a psychology professor at Princeton, has found that visual clutter impedes professional performance.
A new way to measure noise
Being watched and monitored changes actions
Seeing eyes alters thoughts and behaviors
Reactions to images depend on what we're told about them
A cross-disciplinary analysis that will encourage new ways of thinking, designing, and eating
There are many, many ways that design can reduce stress; encourage healthy eating, sleeping, and activity levels; and, in general, help humans live with fit minds and bodies.
Communicating with each other and spending time together defines us as a sociable species, distinct from the myriad others that surround us. Design can make it more likely that we socialize in ways that increase our mental and physical wellbeing.
A recent issue of The Scientist reviewed research, recent and classic, on the senses besides the basic 5 (vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste) that humans use to collect information about what’s going on in their world.
Providing tools to help groups easily record information so they can recall it better later seems to be a good idea.