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• TITLE: Effective Design of Coworking Spaces to Improve Users’ Experience in Lagos State, Nigeria

  AUTHORS: Muiz Wale Memud, Baharak Tabibi

  KEYWORDS: Coworker, Coworking Spaces, User Experience

  JOURNAL NAME: Art and Design Review, Vol.11 No.2, May 17, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Coworking has increasingly become the preferred way to work globally. In Nigeria, there is a recorded exponential growth in the development of coworking spaces across the country in the last decade. The research aims to point out that the success of these spaces is heavily reliant on the positive experience of their users. The experience of space is determined by the quality of its architectural design in terms of ergonomics. Given the limited research on the concept of coworking spaces and the perception of its users in Lagos State, this research sets out to establish a guided insight on ensuring users’ experience in coworking spaces in Lagos State is improved through effective design. Following an extensive literature review of the concept, history, and typologies of coworking spaces, the perception of user experiences, the key drivers to the use of these spaces and its major design consideration, this research developed a questionnaire to achieve its outlined objectives. The data collected and analyzed provided important insights into the reasons for choosing to cowork, the users’ perception of the existing spaces, and the design considerations to be upheld. The conclusion from the results was that the need for interaction is the most important driver for coworking, the coworkers were mostly dissatisfied with the functionality of the spaces and the need to achieve thermal comfort was the most important design consideration for a coworker. The results of the study informed the design of coworking spaces in Lagos State, Nigeria, and provided recommendations for improving the user experience.