Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Designing for Healthy Eating
The current focus on health and wellbeing has us constantly evaluating how we’re taking care of ourselves, and part of that conversation is our diet. It’s time to talk about designing to encourage healthier eating. Research consistently shows that design influences how much we eat and how wholesome our food selections are. The cognitive science-based insights on designing for healthy eating have now moved dramatically beyond well publicized findings about the design of food displays, such as those in cafeterias. That work indicated that foods that are a little less convenient to pick up are less likely to be selected by diners. More recent studies have shown that people who can see into the area where food was prepared and any food that remains there as they eat are apt to return more often to get additional servings and to eat more than people who couldn’t see into those prep …
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