Designing for the human experience in the office environment requires a holistic approach where people are the focus and their needs, emotions, and senses are supported and enhanced. An office space should foster each employee’s sense of individuality and control to choose their type of work lifestyle. Having choice leads to empowerment and engagement within their work environment. When designing a space, it is important to provide different types of ‘work modes’ such as active zones, quiet zones, and social zones. Spaces that provide varied work modes give the employee an opportunity to choose their individual workstyle. Given choice, opportunity, and autonomy empowers an individual. A sense of empowerment and individuality reduces stress and leads to happier employees.
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Inspirational Advice from Content Marketing World 2019
Honored. Proud. Surprised.
These three words were the speech given by a marketing agency that won at the 2019 Content Marketing Awards in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. This response was prompted by Robert Rose, the Chief Strategy Advisor for Content Marketing Institute, asking winners to speak a few words when coming up on stage to accept their awards. The brevity of this response was inspiring – showing a glimpse of wisdom by giving importance to the words chosen. This incident inspired me to write the following – brief sentences to capture the essence of each session I attended at the 2019 Content Marketing World conference and to share them with you.
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Designing the Human Experience: Retail Design
Designing for the human experience is an important tool for designers and retailers. To design for the human experience is to create more personalization and emotional connections for the consumer. Retailers can achieve these experiences for their customers by embracing data-driven solutions, personalization, and technology into their physical environments. Interior designers can help implement the physicality of these solutions in the design of space.
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Review of NeoCon 2019
With nearly one million square feet of the most versatile exhibits gathered under one roof, we were immersed in the most featured innovative, products and services from well-known companies and emerging talent. Every year Neocon exhibitors not only showcase a vast variety of products from residential to commercial but also bring forward design trends. Some are reinforcing previous strong styles that are here to stay or introduce new philosophies that are powerful enough to transcend across multiple manufacturers and markets, setting the tone for future interior environments.
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