Designing for Optimal Energy Levels
Environmental energy levels and planned activities align for successful design.
Environmental energy levels and planned activities align for successful design.
Decisions designers make now affect walking later--and our mental and physical health.
Knight and Baer investigated the effect of people standing during meetings on group performance.
Researchers have learned more about why particular smells so quickly and consistently produce emotional reactions in the people smelling them.
Nespor, Langus, and Guellai confirm that gestures play an important role in communication.
Ma and Roese profile the “maximizing mindset.”
Our response to artwork depends on where it’s displayed.
The typefaces selected for use in signage and other applications have emotional associations for viewers.
Need another reason to incorporate nature into designed environments? Now you have one.
Signage for wayfinding and other purposes should be visually symmetrical.