The Analysis of Role of Behavioral Sciences in Design Process Based on Environmental Design

Abstract

The objective of analyzing the role of Behavioral Sciences in Design is to find a solution in order to reach a design product responsible to user’s needs, is to achieve a solution for an environmental design which its body corresponds with the users behavioral plans. The named are the objectives of behavioral science’s paradigms. In this research after a comprehensive review of literature and analyzing and categorizing the effective patterns on design process the role of behavioral sciences in design process was defined. The research, conclusions showed that the role of behavioral sciences           works in two modes: forming models and theories and research methods. Among the findings it was defined that the effectiveness of the decisions in initial phases of design process are highly more than the decisions in lateral phases. In addition it was defined that normative theories reveals the normative statements of designers and this defines their personal frameworks. The latter phase is just a scientific guess thus it defines the role of behavioral sciences in environmental design process.