Embodied Cognition and Brain-Body Links
Research in cognitive science shows clear links between particular concrete, physical experiences and higher-level mental concepts.
Research in cognitive science shows clear links between particular concrete, physical experiences and higher-level mental concepts.
Aligning design with national culture makes it more likely that users will experience the mental and physical conditions that optimize their wellbeing and performance.
Symmetry is a good thing - and a special thing.
What humans can see has a significant influence on how they think and act—which is why an individual’s line-of-sight, and the lines-of-sight of group members, are so important.
Design can make travel-related spaces Hells or Havens.
Study after study shares insights on how people see, hear, smell, and feel the world around themselves. Others report the emotional and cognitive implications of all that seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching. This article highlights the most important senses-related findings designers need to apply in their work.
Transparency is a good thing, unless it's not.
PlaceMaking is at the core of design, whether the focus of a particular project is the development of new spaces or the objects that go into them. PlaceMaking elevates the physical, social, and cultural experiences that people have in a particular place.
Reversal theory guides people familiar with its principles to powerful insights about the life experiences of human beings because it focuses attention on our core objectives, capabilities, and emotions.
Whether it’s subtle or dramatic, large or small, abstract or realistic, or something else entirely, visual art has a significant influence on the experience of being in a space. What have researchers learned about how it can increase our mental and physical wellbeing?