As workplace design has moved toward a focus on maximizing collaboration and community, individual work began to suffer. The best workplace design, however, is balanced, supporting both collaborative and individual work.
Drawing on research conducted by Herman Miller, this course identifies the five most common states of mind people seek to cultivate when they need to do individual work, outlines people’s needs for each state of mind, and suggests ways that design can help meet those needs in order to achieve their desired state of mind.