Title: What Good Design Can Teach Us About Motivation
Context: How???s that cubicle in the room with gray walls helping your creativity?
Synopsis: Is your work environment enhancing your creativity? For most people the answer is sadly, ???no???. The old chestnut about the corporate, cubicle mouse maze is actually, and sadly, accurate. I can only guess that it is more cost effective to bulk purchase the exact same desks, chairs, cubicle dividers, carpet, paint etcetera, than to create environments with the human psyche in mind. But then the same people who drop us in the middle of this drably soulless creativity vacuum tell us to go forth and create brilliant things! How dare they. Creativity requires inspiration beyond framed business motivational posters with trite definitions of inspiring words beneath pictures of rich people sailing yachts. The bravest (or most desperate) amongst us stake artistic claim to our allotted space and fill it with pictures, cartoons, plants and anything else that detracts from the oatmeal space planning we are surrounded by. My advice to you is to do whatever you need to in order to overcome the mundanity you suffer through each and every working day. Create your own inspiration and define your own motivation. And rebel against, with every fiber of your being, the tyranny of earth tones.
Best Bit: ???A large part of how you get more creative productivity out of people is having people feel good about working in teams [because] teams are more effective at solving complex problems.???