Few things affect how you feel more than your surroundings. But when people want to create spaces, they generally turn to architects, not psychologists. But some experts recently met in Austin to ...

Since I am a Design Psychologist, do I make buildings lie down on the couch and tell me their problems? No. I study why people put their couch in an isolated corner, keep their drapes drawn or paint ...

From the cozy embrace of a well-designed living room to the structured efficiency of a high-performance office, furniture is far more than mere decor—it shapes our emotions, productivity, and social ...

Rebecca West, a design psychology coach, interior designer and founder of Seriously Happy Homes, joined staff writer Jura Koncius for our Home Front online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: What ...

A great web design is so much more than just delivering content and making it look good. When visitors come to your site, they produce a set of feelings about your website and your organization. The ...

The various aspects of environmental design require landscape architects to spend many years training and subsequently practicing professionally to develop an acute understanding. Landscaping is, in ...

User experience design is about the user, as the name might indicate. But figuring out how to create an interface that users will love is far harder to do than to say: After all, most users can’t even ...

Everyone’s heard that there are no clocks or windows in casinos so that gamblers won’t realize how long they’ve been losing money. But is this actually design gospel? And does it work? According to ...

Farzana Abdulhusein. CEO of Creative Faze, a full-cycle design & tech agency building solutions for automation, smart analytics & AI/ML. With a background in both architecture and computer science, ...

My childhood time spent in our neighborhood’s ‘Big Woods,’ a magical kingdom of apple blossoms and tall trees, forever imprinted the importance of place upon me. It also inspired the path I later cut ...