12 of 365 – Cathedral effect design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
There is research that suggests that people complete tasks differently in environments where there are notably high or notably low ceilings. In environments where the ceiling is not noticeably high or low, it did not have an effect. High ceilings tend to have a cognitive effect of opening up creative and big-picture thinking, whereas lower ceilings have the effect of more detail oriented thinking.
In this illustration, I’m demonstrating the idea of people in both high- and low-ceiling environments.
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