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 ...

Architecture is the design of spaces for human occupation. Despite architects’ skill in designing spaces to influence human behavior there often is a shortfall in anticipating and reacting to ...

The architectural practice has always been rooted in what people now call “human-centered design”. The term, coined by Irish engineer Mike Cooley in his 1987 publication “Human-Centred Systems” ...

Shaping behavior has always been an integral part of design, but whether the design is good for users isn’t always clear cut. Since first being coined as a term in 2010, Behavior Design has grown in ...

What is the best way to frame human behavior? According to the unified theory of psychology 1, we can think of human beings as: (a) animals engaged in “behavioral investments” who are also (b) ...

A large part of what we’re doing with large language models involves looking at human behavior. That might get lost in some conversations about AI, but it’s really central to a lot of the work that’s ...

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