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Co-creating better experiences.

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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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Craft the Magic: Experience Design

Craft the Magic: Experience Design

What if you could design the next great museum, themed restaurant, or immersive adventure?
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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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Guides that reval experience design concepts in the field.

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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
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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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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.

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The AI Crossroads: Navigating the Human-AI Future of Work, Education, and Society

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.

Active 2016–Present
from Living Values
A Community Conversation About Values

A Community Conversation About Values

Experience Design Factors

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

Active
from Experience Design Factors
The Right Words: Changing The Framework’s Name

The Right Words: Changing The Framework’s Name

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.

Active
from Learning Lab

The AI Crossroads: Navigating the Human-AI Future of Work, Education, and Society

Horizon Points

This site explores how AI impacts peoples’ experiences. As these technologies permeate every corner of society, knowing how to use them and their consequences is paramount for creators, their partners, and associated stakeholders.

Active 2020–Present
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AI Bytes: Mar 19, 2025

A Few Pages to Consider