Relation between Environment Color and Image Processing Performance at Design Development Stage

Lacking inspiration is a major challenge for designers when performing a design task, and the number and the quality of design ideas are critical indicators of the performance of a designer. With 60 volunteered participants, 70% women and 30% men, who in average had more than three years of design experience, this study tested whether environment color (red, green, and white) affects designers' image processing performance at the design development stage. The data collected were submitted to ANOVA, and the result shows (1) no significant effect of environment color on the number of design ideas (F = 0.553; P = 0.578), (2) no significant effect of environment color on the quality of design ideas (F = 0.156; P = 0.856), and (3) a weak correlation (r = 0.277) between the number of design ideas and the quality of design ideas. A suggestion for future research exploring the effect of environment color on enhancing image processing performance is to refine the experimental control.