There is no question that an unpleasant working environment has an impact on both our physical and emotional health.
Is it possible for good design to make us happy? Given that we spend almost all of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they affect us?
Design is fundamentally about problem resolution. That is why it is so simple to communicate with designers. They can explain how their interface is built to assist you in navigating your phone, or how a device was created for mass production on an assembly line.
Happiness is a complex construct and is not typically associated with working environments. In the context of organizational design job satisfaction or thriving may be more appropriate and representative of what you're asking. I would recommend the Job Demand-Resource model (Bakker & Demerouti) and/or the Transactional Theory of Stress (Lazarus & Folkman) for a theoretical background to this issue, which may lead you to an empirically based answer to your question.
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