City Architecture Design for School Effect on Children's Learning

Buckingham County in Virginia created a school (k-5) thats Architecture would influence the way kids learn and make choices. The ergonomics of the school was structured around how physical activities and do it your self centers could increase the overallschools academics. 

http://www.dogonews.com/2015/9/5/can-a-smart-school-design-inspire-students-to-become-more-active-and-make-healthier-food-choices

Autodesk Research Project Dreamcatcher

This is a our design process wrapped up into this one computer program. All you have to do is input your wants and needs for a design and the computer will generate concept design and suggestions for you. http://www.deskeng.com/virtual_desktop/?p=10839

Personas: MailChimp's Approach

New MailChimp: User Persona Research

How MailChimp, the well-known email marketing company, used research to develop personas in preparation for its redesign in 2013. On top of that, they developed a great way to communicate those personas to the rest of the company.

If you haven't seen this, check it out!!!

Not sure exactly how I feel about this article, but definitely gives you something to think about.

"I’m not against making things easy to use. Ease of use encourages somebody to pick up your product. But the promise of mastery ensures that they will never want to put it down."

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/on-the-joy-of-mastery/

UX Booth

I found this really neat site that is all about design research and user experience. I think it would be a great resource to follow because they discuss real life design issues of today that we all encounter.

"The UX Booth is a publication by and for the user experience community. Our readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome. If you’re interested, join us and discuss best practices and trending topics, or share your experiences."

http://www.uxbooth.com/

Instrument, Validity, Reliability

I found this article on the use of research instruments and testing the validity of the data that is collected.

https://researchrundowns.wordpress.com/quantitative-methods/instrument-validity-reliability/