Thermostat Settings Matter!
How air temperature influences humans psychologically has been extensively studied.
How air temperature influences humans psychologically has been extensively studied.
Public bathrooms can be designed so that they make the lives of users a little—or a lot—better. Social science research details ways design can provide welcoming, comfortable experiences to everyone visiting a restroom.
Research on educational spaces, at both the pre K-12 and college/university levels, continues to generate fresh, important insights . This new wisdom supports design options that make learning a more pleasant and productive experience.
Actively managing how a place or object smells is becoming increasingly accepted and strategically important. Scientific studies detail how to create scent-scapes that drive design solutions to successfully meet objectives.
What scientists have learned about our experiences in vehicles should not only be applied when new transporting spaces are designed, but also as more stationary places are being developed.
The way that physical stores are designed continues to have a significant influence on the success of organizations selling objects and services. Shoppers' sensory, social, cultural and other experiences can be fine-tuned using research-based insights to achieve sales goals.
Humans thrive when they feel they have a comfortable amount of control over their physical world, and design can make sure that they do.
Tuning light’s color and intensity to the right values, using insights from cognitive neuroscience, boosts viewers’ welfare and performance. What’s “right” varies by context and situation; no lighting color-intensity combo is always best.
Coordinating in-use scents with other design elements makes it more likely that design-related goals are achieved. Research has shown that particular smells can calm us, make it more likely we’ll think creatively, and help us get along with others, for instance.
How do you decide what to name places, products, and projects? Do you consider how those names sound, for example? Cognitive scientists spend a lot of time thinking about the implications of the letters and sounds in names.