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Experience Design

Read about BYU Marriott's Experience Design & Management program, the students in our program, the faculty and their research, as well as where our alumni are in their careers.
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Employee Spotlight

Families That Play Together, Stay Together

February 03, 2020
For BYU Marriott experience design and management assistant professor Sarah Agate, the common phrase "family that plays together, stays together," couldn't be more true.

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Student Experiences

The LEGO Classroom: Where Everything is Awesome

December 06, 2019
By the time college starts, most students have gotten rid of their childhood toys. But for BYU Marriott's Experience Design and Management (EXDM) program, professors encourage students to play with toys.

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Student Experiences

Experiencing the Good Life

November 20, 2019
Walking timidly into the Tanner Building for her first class of her freshman year, Melissa Trautman didn’t know what to expect from the class or from her future BYU experience. She hoped the course title, Creating a Good Life, would come to literal fruition, but she had no idea the significant impact the class would have on her life.
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Employee Spotlight

Designing Experiences

October 24, 2019
While working as a white-water rafting guide in central Idaho during high school, Mat Duerden got his first taste of how experience design can impact lives.
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Employee Spotlight

A Little Taste of Heaven

September 17, 2019
BYU Marriott ExDM professor Brian Hill, along with three other BYU professors, recently led a group of fourteen students on a six-week expedition exploring Utah's natural wonders.
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Student Experiences

The Extra Hundredth Mile

August 28, 2019
Kickboxing, kayaking, and rock climbing are challenging activities, and for those with physical or mental disabilities, they can seem nearly impossible but the No Barriers Summit attendees would tell you otherwise.
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Student Experiences

The Asia Experience

June 19, 2019
ExDM student Lindsey Sampson river rafted in Thailand, visited the great mountains of Nepal, and climbed the Great Wall of China all for school credit.
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Alumni Spotlight

Ask—Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain

June 14, 2019
Emily Codling accomplishes what she sets her mind to. The secret to living your dreams, she says, is asking for the opportunity to do so.
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Employee Spotlight

Legacy of a Legend

June 11, 2019
Climbing the tallest mountains in the world, learning to fly, and doing research in Uganda are incredible feats on their own and BYU Marriott professor Stacy Taniguchi has done them all.
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Student Experiences

From Moment to Masterpiece

May 28, 2019
Pointillism can give insightful perspective on a student's academic journey. BYU Marriott ExDM students learned how at the department's first-ever Senior Peak Experience.
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Student Experiences

Student Research Goes International

April 04, 2019
What role does emotion play in a transformative experience? That's what BYU Marriott experience design management student researchers will present on in Melbourne, Australia.
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Student Spotlight

Creative Tech Events with a Side of Cake

February 11, 2019
The ExDM program fit Stringham's ideal major because she received the business core she needed while her major classes were focused on creative areas.
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Student Experiences

Constructing New Horizons at New Haven

January 31, 2019
Two women from BYU Marriott's therapeutic recreation major have teamed up to help adolescent girls strengthen themselves and themselves and their families.
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Student Experiences

Inclusivity: Coming to a Resort Near You

January 15, 2019
A team of nine therapeutic recreation students helped conduct research on the travel experiences of individuals with disabilities.
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Student Experiences

High Adventure Equals Right Returns

December 02, 2018
New experience design and therapeutic recreation students cultivated new relationships with professors and peers during an outdoor adventure.
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Alumni Spotlight

A Balancing Act

October 22, 2018
BYU Marriott alum Alena J. Turner quite literally bends over backward to help others. The 2013 therapeutic recreation graduate has influenced many children—including her own—during her successful career as a gymnastics coach.
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Alumni Spotlight

Work and Play

September 28, 2018
A BYU Marriott alum combines work and play as she teaches patients how to recover from addiction through mountain biking, canoeing, and rock climbing.
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Student Experiences

The Experience of a Lifetime

September 25, 2018
Fencing, paragliding, and rowing gondolas are a few of the once-in-a-lifetime experiences that students had on the Experience Design and Management Study Abroad.
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