Designology: How to Find Your PlaceType and Align Your Life With Design (Cozy Home, Feng Shui and Residential Interior Design and Home Decoration ... Magnolia Table, and The Nesting Place) - Softcover

Dr. Sally Augustin helps people design spaces that are much more than just clean or clutter-free--it helps them design spaces to support their deepest goals. It's a mind-opening new way of working with the space around us every day. A widely published Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Sally has produced work featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, The Guardian, Forbes, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Prevention, Salon, Self and more. She's a contributor both to the Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today, and her clients include Kohler, Sherwin-Williams, Intel, CPP, Inc. (owners of the Meyers-Briggs personality test), The American Society of Interior Designers, and more. Based on the insights of environmental psychology, Sally Augustin has developed a fascinating new concept of PlaceType, eight different patterns of human psychology that encode our response to surroundings. Like COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL, which enabled millions of women to instantly understand their "season" and chose the most flattering colors for makeup and fashion, DESIGNOLOGY gives readers the tools they need to instantly understand themselves and how to work with the world around them. DESIGNOLOGY cuts through the fads of clutter and cleaning books and delivers the clear, uncomplicated truth about why we respond to certain spaces in certain ways, and how we can use colors, scents, and other sensory experiences to create spaces that serve our real needs. Sally Augustin delivers straightforward action plans we need to develop places where we can live our best lives.

Sally Augustin, PhD, is a practicing environmental/design psychologist and the principal at Design With Science. She has extensive experience integrating science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical experiences. Her Design With Science clients include manufacturers, service providers, and design firms in North America, Europe, and Asia. They book Design With Science's services again and again-applying cognitive science pays off. More information on clients and past work is available upon request. Dr. Augustin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Work completed by Dr. Augustin has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Forbes, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Prevention, Salon, and Self and design publications worldwide. She is an invited contributor to the online version of the Harvard Business Review where she has contributed articles on a range of topics, from engaging workplaces to design and culture. For Metropolis, she has written a series of articles about successful spaces titled "Places that Work." She has discussed using design to enhance lives on mass-market national television and radio programs. As the editor of Research Design Connections, Dr. Augustin has written widely on science-based design for a broad audience of people interested in the designed world. She speaks frequently to audiences in North America, Europe, and Asia at events such as the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects, the International Design & Emotion Conference, the bi-annual meeting of the International Positive Psychology Association, the bi-annual meeting of the Association of Neuroscience for Architecture, NeoCon/IIDEX, the American Psychological Association's annual meeting, the Environmental Design Research Association annual conference, Healthcare Design, Living-Futures, and Applied Brilliance. Sally Augustin is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), Northwestern University (MBA), and Claremont Graduate University (PhD). She holds leadership positions in professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association (past-president, environmental psychology division) and the Environmental Design Research Association (chair, work environments network). Dr. Augustin is the author of Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009).