I’ll be honest – I never thought much about office design until I became obsessed with creating better environments for my kids at home. But once you start noticing how…
You know what hit me the other day while I was watching my kids play in our backyard? They were completely absorbed building fairy houses under the Japanese maple I…
After thirty-eight years in the same house, I’ve lived through enough design trends to make your head spin. I remember when everything was harvest gold and avocado green, then came…
When I started tracking my productivity metrics six years ago, I had no idea I’d end up deep in research about architectural design principles. But when you’re spending 8-10 hours…
You know that feeling when you’re hiking through a forest or sitting by a lake, and suddenly everything just feels… right? Your shoulders drop, you breathe deeper, and for a…
I’ll be honest – when I first came across the term “biophile” while researching workspace optimization, it felt like finding the missing piece of data that explained all my productivity…
So I saw the Amazon Spheres trending on my Instagram feed again last week – you know, those massive glass dome things in Seattle that look like giant snow globes…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that struck me during a recent doctor’s appointment. The waiting room was one of those typical medical office spaces – fluorescent lights…
I’ll be honest – before I started optimizing my home office, I thought architecture was just about making buildings look nice. Then I read some research about how physical environments…
When I started optimizing my home office for productivity a few years back, I was mainly focused on personal metrics – focus time, task completion rates, mental fatigue levels. What…
Living in the same house for nearly four decades gives you a front-row seat to how communities grow and change around you. What started as farmland beyond our back fence…
When I started tracking the correlation between my workspace environment and productivity metrics, I stumbled into something bigger than just optimizing my home office. The data kept pointing to patterns…
I stumbled across Biophilic Design LAM about eight months ago while researching why my productivity metrics kept fluctuating. As someone who tracks everything about my work environment, I was seeing…
When I first started optimizing my home office setup, I’ll admit I was focused on the obvious stuff – ergonomic chair, fast internet, decent monitor. Natural light wasn’t even on…
So here’s something that bugs me every time I visit our company’s main office for quarterly meetings: the complete disconnection from anything natural. Fluorescent lighting, beige walls, zero plants, no…