Sally Augustin

Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA, is a practicing environmental psychologist and a 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, physical, and financial outcomes/experiences.

Her clients include design firms, manufacturers, service providers, trade organizations, and others, who design, manage, and/or use workplaces, worldwide.

Sally, who is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is also the editor of Research Design Connections, a monthly newsletter with daily blog, that reports and synthesizes the findings of recent and classic research in neuroscience, cognitive science, and other social sciences that are useful to designers, all in everyday language.  She is the author of several books and her work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times,  The Wall Street and The Guardian.

Dr. Augustin has written for the Harvard Business School Press and has talked about using design to enhance human performance and psychological wellbeing on mass-market national television and radio programs in the United States and in Europe (such as the BBC and NPR).  She is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley and on the Board of the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Network.

Expertise: Workplace Design, Pharmaceutical, Utilities/services, Transport & storage, Property & real estate, Hotels & restaurants, Retail and FMCG, Sport & leisure, Media & marketing, IT & telecomms, Call centres, Financial & insurance, Legal practices, Professional services, Research & laboratories, Healthcare, Not for profit/charities, Local government, Central government, Education – schools, Education – FE, Education – HE, Libraries & museums.

Based in: US
Area Covered: US, Global