{"id":29,"date":"2009-02-13T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workingknowledge.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T03:29:11","slug":"a-quick-way-to-boost-your-creativity-or-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/a-quick-way-to-boost-your-creativity-or-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Way to Boost Your Creativity or Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Point<\/strong>: Color affects performance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story<\/strong>: The background color on your computer screen might influence your creativity or productivity, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/1169144\">study<\/a> by the University of British Columbia.  Researchers gave participants work tasks on a computer.  The experimenters varied whether the tasks were presented against a blue, red or neutral background on the computer screen.  The results:<\/p>\n<p>People performing tasks that required <strong>attention to detail<\/strong> (like proofreading) did better when the computer background was <strong>red<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>People performing tasks that required a <strong>creativity<\/strong> (like creating new products) did better when the computer background was <strong>blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong>: Set your computer background to red when you need to focus on details. Set the background to blue when you want to make creative connections.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for more information:<br \/>\n<em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/science\/06color.html?_r=2&#038;th&#038;emc=th\">article<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wired<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/02\/coloreffects.html?mbid=wir_newsltr\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point: Color affects performance Story: The background color on your computer screen might influence your creativity or productivity, according to a recent study by the University of British Columbia. Researchers gave participants work tasks on a computer. The experimenters varied whether the tasks were presented against a blue, red or neutral background on the computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[368,369],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-productivity","tag-creativity","tag-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workingknowledge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}