Minding Design — Research to help you design great products, spaces, and experiences. Current focus: Automation.
Putting numbers on experience
Happy and sad smiley feedback terminals are a popular way of collecting feedback about people’s real-life experience. With tactile terminals out because of COVID, now is a good chance to improve on this system using touchless, digital displays with better questions.
Bringing nature online
Nature access can improve people’s experience in physical environments. How can we apply lessons from physical space design to bring nature to digital and online environments?
Change of space
Some highlights from the Giant COVID Survey. How will COVID shape our physical world? What aspects of our homes, workspaces, public spaces, and cities will change for now, and for good?
Going back to school but staying outside
There are many benefits to outdoor learning. But there are also barriers that make it difficult to adopt and maintain. How can we address these barriers to make outdoor learning sustainable?
Walking, talking, and opportunity
How does neighbourhood walkability change us and the opportunities available to us?
Shedding light on being good
What does bright light have to do with rule-following, healthy eating, and creativity?
Why we make things and value the things we make
We like and value things we’ve made ourselves more highly that those made by others. Why? And why are we drawn to making things ourselves?
Public spaces and community
How do public spaces contribute to people’s sense of community? And how might access to public space impact city and suburb dwellers’ experience in the year(s) ahead?