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Who is an experience designer?
It's a question that keeps coming up - especially as people are applying to the Experience Design Certificate Program. I mean - isn't anyone who designs something for a person in some way an experience designer? Doesn't a museum exhibition designer make experiences? Or a furniture designer? Or even a person writing an email?
Well, yes. Of course. But the practice of experience design is not defined by the formal product, and that's the point, really. An experience designer utilizes the chair, the email, the museum exhibit to make an experience possible. What's so powerful here is that focusing on the experience allows for wildly new approaches to whatever is being made. Here are a few examples from former students that show what experience design is and how it can rethink issues of accessibility, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
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All of these projects began with an intended audience experience in mind. The results here are inspiring. But experience designers are out there rethinking a wide variety of fields. HR professionals are considering the effect of appreciation on job satisfaction. Hospitals are using immersive environments to reduce the stress of responding to COVID. And those endlessly creative folks at Meow Wolf want us never to see supermarkets the same way again.
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Running through Spring and Fall, our sessions will be bookended by in-person weekend intensives, the first at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the second in New York City.
During the remote sessions, students take a weekly course online and receive mentorship from Odyssey Works directors Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux. Each remote session culminates in the presentation of an experience design portfolio piece.