Your office cubicle is more than just a space to work; it’s also an opportunity to express your personality and make your workspace feel like home. Decorating your cubicle can have a significant impact on your overall work experience. It can boost your mood, increase productivity, and even improve relations with colleagues. If you’re looking for ways to spruce up your office cubicle, here are some tips to get you started.
1. Personalize with photographs and artwork: Surround yourself with things that bring you joy and inspiration. Display photographs of loved ones, pets, or memorable vacations that will make you smile throughout the day. Hang up artwork or motivational quotes that resonate with you.
2. Add plants: Indoor plants not only add color and life to your cubicle but also help purify the air by reducing toxins. Choose low-maintenance plants like succulents or cacti if you don’t have a green thumb. Just make sure they receive enough light and water.
3. Use color wisely: Customize your workspace by incorporating colors that evoke positive emotions in you. Consider using colorful desk accessories, picture frames, or even a colorful chair cushion to brighten up the space.
4. Organize with style: A cluttered workspace can contribute to stress and reduce productivity levels. Invest in stylish organizers such as desk trays, file folders, or pen holders to keep your essentials neatly in place.
5. Enhance lighting: Lighting plays a crucial role in our well-being and productivity levels at work. Consider adding a personal desk lamp or decorative string lights for ambient lighting that improves focus while creating an inviting atmosphere.
6. Utilize bulletin boards or whiteboards: Pin important reminders, inspiring quotes, or even notes from colleagues on bulletin boards near your desk area – instant motivation! Whiteboards can serve as handy planning tools or creative outlets for brainstorming ideas.
7. Incorporate soft furnishings: Comfort matters, especially if you spend long hours at your desk. Add a cozy rug, throw pillows, or a comfortable chair cushion to make your workspace feel welcoming and help reduce physical discomfort.
8. Consider soundscaping: Create a pleasant auditory experience by introducing gentle background noise. A small desktop fountain or a white noise machine can help drown out distracting sounds and create a serene ambiance.
9. Keep it professional: While it’s important to personalize your space, ensure that your decorations align with the office culture and are appropriate for a professional setting. Avoid anything offensive or overly distracting to maintain a harmonious workspace environment.
Remember, decorating your office cubicle should be an enjoyable process that reflects your unique personality while keeping functionality in mind. Get creative with these tips and transform your workspace into an inviting and motivating sanctuary that boosts productivity and creates positive vibes throughout the day!
Speculative Everything
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Author by : Anthony Dunne
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2013-12-06
Publisher by : MIT Press
ISBN :
Description : How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures....
The Shabby Chic Home
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Author by : Rachel Ashwell
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Publisher by : Harper Collins
ISBN :
Description : Shabby Chic designer Rachel Ashwell shows readers how to turn any house or apartment into a comfortable, functional, beautiful, and stylish home, in this bestselling guide to getting the most out of flea-market finds and vintage treasures....
Marriage By Design
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Author by : Lynn Michaels
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2006-07-25
Publisher by : Ballantine Books
ISBN :
Description : There’s only so much taffeta and toile a girl can take. Passionate, talented, and noticeably stunning, Mia Savard is the top designer at her father’s thriving bridal design company. But her life has hit a bit of a snag. Thirty, recently dumped, and suddenly single, Mia has grown weary of white lace and craves couture. But when Mia’ s most spectacular creation is leaked to the competition, the silk hits the fan. Someone inside Savard Creations is trading with the enemy. In the world of fashion, that means war. Enter private investigator Joe Kerr, the exceedingly handsome ex-cop hired to nab the clever mole. Stalking dangerous territory–where jittery brides, hysterical mothers, and deadline-challenged designers clash in clouds of gossamer and gossip–Joe is torn between suspecting Mia and seducing her. Amid the treachery, hijinks, and flirtations galore, it seems that for Mia, romance just might be tailor-made....
The New Traditional
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Author by : Darryl Carter
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2008
Publisher by : Potter Style
ISBN :
Description : Known for seamlessly mixing the modern with the classical, Carter presents a comprehensive guide to creating a home that balances individual comfort with a timeless aesthetic....
The Rise Of Conspiracy Theories
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Author by : Aufheben Collective
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021-01-30
Publisher by : Pattern Books
ISBN :
Description : The Rise of Conspiracy Theories is a 2016 essay written by the Aufheben Collective covering a brief history of conspiracy theories into the politics of conspiracy theories into how conspiracy theories are used to disempower. Particularly, how the growth of conspiracy theories reflect moments of defeat in class struggle, using the example of 9/11 conspiracy theories. Aufheben is a UK-based libertarian communist journal that has been active since 1992. This Radical Reprint by Pattern Books is made to be as accessible and as close to manufacturing cost as possible....
Tales From The Back Row
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Author by : Amy Odell
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-09
Publisher by : Simon and Schuster
ISBN :
Description : "Hilarious, insightful and smart. A must-read for anyone who wears clothes.” —Chelsea Handler *US Weekly, “Riveting Reads for Labor Day”* *Bustle, “2015 Books Every Funny Woman Should Read” and “September 2015’s Best Books”* *Refinery29 “Fall’s Most Highly Anticipated Nonfiction Reads”* *theSkimm, “Skimm Reads”* *Popsugar, “Motivational Books You Should Read this Fall”* *AM NY, “New Books for New Yorkers to Read This Fall”* The Lowdown on High Fashion Cosmopolitan.com editor Amy Odell knows what it’s really like to be a young woman working in the fashion industry. In Tales from the Back Row, Amy—funny and fearless—takes readers behind the stage of New York’s hottest fashion shows to meet the world’s most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers. But first, she has to push her way through the crowds outside, where we see the lengths people go to be noticed by the lurking paparazzi, and weave her way through the packed venue, from the very back row to the front. And as Amy climbs the ladder (with tips about how you can, too), she introduces an industry powered by larger-than-life characters: she meets the intimidating Anna Wintour and the surprisingly gracious Rachel Zoe, not to mention the hilarious Chelsea Handler, and more. As she describes the allure of Alexander Wang’s ripped tights and Marchesa’s Oscar-worthy dresses, Amy artfully layers in something else: ultimately this book is about how the fashion industry is an exaggerated mirror of human fallibility—reflecting our desperate desire to belong, to make a mark, to be included. For Amy is the first to admit that as much as she is embarrassed by the thrill she gets when she receives an invitation to an exclusive after-party, she can’t help but RSVP “yes.”...
Sketching User Experiences Getting The Design Right And The Right Design
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Author by : Bill Buxton
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-07-28
Publisher by : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN :
Description : Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood—by both designers and the people with whom they need to work— in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is on design, the approach is holistic. Hence, the book speaks to designers, usability specialists, the HCI community, product managers, and business executives. There is an emphasis on balancing the back-end concern with usability and engineering excellence (getting the design right) with an up-front investment in sketching and ideation (getting the right design). Overall, the objective is to build the notion of informed design: molding emerging technology into a form that serves our society and reflects its values. Grounded in both practice and scientific research, Bill Buxton’s engaging work aims to spark the imagination while encouraging the use of new techniques, breathing new life into user experience design. Covers sketching and early prototyping design methods suitable for dynamic product capabilities: cell phones that communicate with each other and other embedded systems, "smart" appliances, and things you only imagine in your dreams Thorough coverage of the design sketching method which helps easily build experience prototypes—without the effort of engineering prototypes which are difficult to abandon Reaches out to a range of designers, including user interface designers, industrial designers, software engineers, usability engineers, product managers, and others Full of case studies, examples, exercises, and projects, and access to video clips that demonstrate the principles and methods...
