Article Portfolio

OCTOBER 2024

2025 Workplace Trends

Following on from 2024’s shifts in workplace culture – such as the influence of concepts like ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘acting your wage’ – and with a newly-elected party in government promising great change, 2025 has the potential to truly shake up the workplace with radical shifts in employee mindset.

OCTOBER 2024

Sensory Design: Creating Emotionally Comfortable Workspaces

Considering all five of our senses – sight, sound, scent, touch, and even taste – we can manipulate our workspaces in order to trigger certain emotional responses and experiences.

SEPTEMBER 2024

Design Stories: Trinity

Utilising the interview and copy that wasn’t used in Trinity’s external product feature, I put together a full interview with Trinity’s designer for a behind-the-scenes story.

JULY 2024

The All-Weather Office

As summers get hotter, and winters get colder, the demand for the ‘all-weather office’ rises. Workspaces must provide cooling in summer without making winter unbearable, and vice versa.

JUNE 2024

Show

A feature for another Dams range, Show, for which I interviewed the Product Designer and wrote copy. The final article contains an edited version of the copy I contributed, and the full copy will be featured on the Dams communications channels at a future date.

JUNE 2024

Colour in the Workplace

When faced with swaddles of swatches and an unending array of hues, making a furniture colour decision can be overwhelming enough that you throw in the towel and stick to neutral, monochromatic tones.

MAY 2024

‘Sick Note Culture’

Reducing mental health-related absences starts with workplace design that supports employee mental health.

APRIL 2024

Trinity

A feature for another new Dams range, Trinity, for which I interviewed the Product Designer and wrote copy. The final article contains an edited version of the copy I contributed, and the full copy will be featured on the Dams communications channels at a future date.

APRIL 2024

Employee Fitness

Keeping to your resolutions, particularly fitness-related resolutions, can become more of a marathon than a fun run over the course of the year. If your workplace doesn’t support employee fitness goals, reaching your resolutions can seem like an insurmountable task.

MARCH 2024

Employee Sentiment

Join us as we explore employee sentiment, what today’s employees are looking for in workplace design, and how you can transform your workplace into an inclusive space in which employees feel valued.

FEBRUARY 2024

Snuggle

A feature for Dams’ new product, the Snuggle, for which I interviewed the Product Designer, and wrote copy. The final article contains an abridged version of the copy I contributed, and the full copy will be featured on the Dams communications channels at a future date.

FEBRUARY 2024

Benefits of Biophilic Design

February is the month of love, with the widely celebrated Valentine’s Day situated in the middle. Here, we explore what the workplace can learn from a major Valentines day tradition-the gifting of flowers.

JANUARY 2024

2024 Workplace Trends

2023 was a year of substantial changes for the workplace, and 2024 seems set for much of the same – if not more!