Dennis Cheatham
Design isn't about design. It's about a person's experience.
Featured Research
Field Notes
Regular thoughts on ways design impacts experiences in real time.
Active Research Areas
My work answers three questions.
Experience Design
What about peoples' makeup, reasoning, emotions, and surrounding environment are worth considering to guide what features of products, services, and systems will facilitate meaningful and especially memorable experiences?
Futures Thinking
How are AI and other emerging technologies reshaping human experiences and how do systems thinking and practical imagination need to adapt to people affected by complex social matters?
Learning Sciences
What learning experiences and curricular formats effectively develop experience-centered designers who are effective partners and leaders as our community and clients' needs evolve?
Design Workbench Project Sites
Project websites showcase work by transdisciplinary teams exploring ways design research and co-creation can shape experiences.
Horizon Points
Intergenerational social connections research
Dennis Cheatham
Design isn't about design. It's about a person's experience.
Experience Design Projects
Digital health interventions for older adults
Living Values
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Recent Scholarship & Speaking
