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Design Workbench

Improving experiences through research and co-creative collaboration.

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The best way to understand is to see it in action. Design Workbench is a network of project sites that showcase design in action.

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Practical Magic at Walt Disney World

Study Away Experience

Practical Magic at Walt Disney World

Learn how Disney makes the magic through extraordinary Guest service, immersive stories, and detailed design.
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Observed

Spotting Experience Design in the wild via Instagram. Check out these posts for insights and commmentary.

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Pages that cover experience design knowledge, thinking, and skills from human behavior and ressearch to style and software.

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Tools for Exploring Experience Design IRL

Guides that reval experience design concepts in the field.

Boost Your Experience

Experience Boosters challenge you to develop new ways of thinking and feeling about designed experiences.

Experience Booster

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Experience Design Factors
Experience Design

Experience Design Factors

XDF is a practical framework that can help teams examine matters that lead to co-creating memorable experiences.
Status: Active
Timeline: 2020
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Living Values
Education & Training Policy & Advocacy Aging Healthcare

Living Values

Everyone deserves dignity—in life and after they die. Living Values is a design research project to learn how people prefer to talk about their end-of-life choices, and co-create tools that empower them to record advance care planning decisions for their last days and beyond.
Status: Active
Timeline: 2016
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Projects on the Workbench

Check out these experience design projects.

Experience Design Factors

Active 2020–Present
Experience Design Factors

XDF is a practical framework that can help teams examine matters that lead to co-creating memorable experiences.

Learning Lab

Active 2015–Present
Learning Lab

Innovations in teaching and learning result when educators meld an iterative design process into creating teaching and learning experiences. On this site, learn about in-process projects and discoveries as they develop.

Living Values

Active 2016–Present
Living Values

Everyone deserves dignity—in life and after they die. Living Values is a design research project to learn how people prefer to talk about their end-of-life choices, and co-create tools that empower them to record advance care planning decisions for their last days and beyond.

Dennis Cheatham

Active 2007–Present
Dennis Cheatham

I research and design meaningful human experiences, investigating how AI technologies are shaping the ways people make sense of themselves and engage with the world around them.

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