These are exciting times for interior designers. Clients are asking design to do more — to boost their businesses, to improve the quality of healthcare and promote wellness, to foster learning, to safeguard the environment and protect against disasters, and to provide safe and healthy spaces. At the same time,… Read More →

This summer, 200 Samsung and LG employees will be outfitted with Sociometric Badges, social sensing technologies that track and record body movements and human interactions. The devices monitor the wearers’ behavior as they navigate the workplace, attend meetings and collaborate with colleagues, essentially mapping and measuring how these knowledge workers… Read More →

Innovative, high-performing companies are dispatching with corner offices and cubicles in favor of open floor plans and “doodling spaces.” Doodling spaces? “Yes, doodling,” Young S. Lee, Allied ASID, Ph.D., an assistant professor of interior design at Michigan State University, confirms. “It’s basically where people brainstorm or generate ideas.” Lee is… Read More →

People often say, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” As an interior designer, I know healthy, productive and memorable spaces are made up of more than a spec sheet or a set of construction documents. And while daylight and way finding can (and should) be measured,… Read More →