Spotlight: Design With Science

by Mallory Budy | July 20th, 2015

Some years ago, two design-inquisitive minds met. Officeinsight founder and editor Brad Powell and Sally Augustin, an environmental psychologist specializing in person-centered design, and a principal at Design With Science, struck up conversation at an A&D event of some flavor and quickly found common ground in their passion for designing with the human condition at top of mind. Soon after, Dr. Augustin began contributing regularly to officeinsight, filling a void in the industry where research, environmental psychology and design can converge. Officeinsight readers now benefit every week from the intellectual partnership between Mr. Powell and Dr. Augustin, through Dr. Augustin’s weekly Research Design Connections column, as well as her longer column Concurrents, which appears every other week. Dr. Augustin’s firm and career are each fascinating animals, and we wanted to share a piece of our history, and our bright future ahead, with the many officeinsight readers who regularly tune in …