Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Now, I wonder: what does gentrification look, smell, taste, feel, and sound like? What are the larger implications that accompany these sensory shifts? I want to understand with my whole body, not just with my mind, how increased development and an influx of affluence in this neighborhood shapes peoples’ everyday lived experiences of their home.
The Five Senses of Gentrification
"A lot of our older spaces had a sea of desks and no one wants that anymore," she said.
Dezeen • "No one wants a sea of desks anymore" says WeWork's global head of design
Storoni, a Cambridge-trained eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, reminds readers that humans are not machines. In fact, she argues against the “linear, continuous, assembly line configuration of work” that the industrial revolution ushered in. In this digital age, she says, human efficiency should “no longer be defined by the quantity of... See more
Madeleine Aggeler • Help! It Turns Out Breaks Make You More Productive
Our tools and the organizational culture they reflect and ultimately enable can add to the noise and static that distract and distress our employees, or they can reduce it.
Laura Pike Seeley Follow @lpikeseeley • Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
Complaints about having to deal with (too much) information are nothing new. So, as you plow through your emails, WhatsApp and text messages, calendar and app notifications, and Zoom/Teams meeting invites, take solace in knowing you’re in good company. Earlier generations managed to cope and so will you.
Test Your Knowledge: The Information Overload Pop Quiz
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
theguardian.com
I realized the benefits to be gained from a formal list of mental model heuristics drawn from the decades of published research on the subject. So, I revisited the literature and sketched a list of eight heuristics for designing to support mental models.
Caleb Furlough • 8 mental model design heuristics
Neighborhoods that “improve” due to gentrification may do so in a manner that serves everyone living there—new sidewalks, more trees, more streetlights, cleaner streets—but how long can existing residents remain in a landscape that becomes rapidly unaffordable and alienating to them?