Expertise | Mat's Website

Curiosity leads to empathy which drives creativity. Both curiosity and creativity can be developed as competencies.

Leveraging creative constraints to design extraordinary experiences

Presentation at the World Experience Organization Summit

2023 | London, UK

Duerden, M. D.

WXO Website

The connection between curiosity, empathy, and creativity

BYU Counseling and Psychological Services Workshop

2021 | Provo, UT

Duerden, M. D.

BYU Website

Designing and staging high-quality park and recreation experiences using co-creation

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration

2019

Lacanienta, A., & Duerden, M. D.

Lego Serious Play Facilitator

Trained/Certified

2018 | Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

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The role of journaling in reflective writing in experiential education: A case study intervention

Journal of Youth Development

2016

Bennion, J., Duerden, M. D., & Whitehouse, A

Designing experiences to foster human connection is one of the most important and impactful outcomes experience designers can target.

An examination of the stability of the remembering self when

measuring social connection derived from a shared leisure experience

Journal of Leisure Research

2023

Hodge, C. J., Melton, K. K., Duerden, M. D., Widmer, M., Rushton, A., & Kelley, A.

The transformative tourism learning model

Annals of Tourism Research

2022

Beuddefeld, J. & Duerden, M. D.

Ecology of family experiences: Contextualizing family leisure for human development and family relations

Journal of Leisure Research

2022

Melton, K., Hodge, C., & Duerden, M. D.

The continual improvement of experiences requires intentional evaluation strategies and the use of effective measurement tools.

Increasing collaborative capitol

Workshop for Bamboo HR employees

2023 | Orem, UT

Duerden, M. D.

BambooHR Website

Employee Experience: Designing experience to build employee loyalty and make employees the heroes

Webinar for HR executive

2022

Damron, B. & Duerden, M. D.

Authentic Assessment

Webinar hosted by BYU's Center for Teaching and Learning

2022 | Provo, UT

Damron, B., Duerden, M. D., & Rowan, J.

Experience evaluation lightning round presentation

Aalto Experience Summit

2020 | Aalto University, Finland

Duerden, M. D.

Aalto Website

From play to performance: Building an effective organization

Marriott Student Review

2017

Selee, J. N., Johnson, J., Murray, J. N., Samuelson, A.; Li, J., Lacanienta, A., Duerden, M. D. & Widmer, M.

Human centered design (HCD) drives the experience design process. A design process focused on the needs of those being designed form keeps the process grounded in real world needs.

Design thinking for recognition

Workshop at Awardco Summit Conference

2023

Duerden, M. D.

Awardco Website

Design thinking and the Marriott School

Marriott School Student Review

2018

Gardiner, C., Neeley, M., & Duerden, M. D.

Extraordinary experiences (i.e., memorable, meaningful, and transformative) each have unique characteristics, impacts, and associated design strategies.

Empirically testing the experience type framework

Journal of Leisure Research

2023

Duerden, M. D., Hodge, C., Melton, K., Ward, Bagley, M., Kelley, L., Meredith, T., Rushton, A., Lacanienta, A., & Widmer, M. A.

Leveraging creative constraints to design extraordinary experiences

Presentation at the World Experience Organization Summit

2023 | London, UK

Duerden, M. D.

WXO Website

Experience Design 101 w/ Mat Duerden

People Business Podcast

2023

McMahon, O.

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Designing extraordinary experiences

Keynote at the Oklahoma Recreation and Parks Conference

2022 | Broken Arrow, OK

Duerden, M. D.

ORPS Website

We process and share our experiences through the stories we tell about them. Accordingly, an understanding of the structure and impact of stories can prove invaluable in the design of experiences.

The experience design storytelling process: How to design and stage transformative experiences

Keynote at the NVE Experience Corporate Retreat

2022 | Carlsbad, CA

Duerden, M. D.

Experience design storytelling process

Silicon Slopes Lunch and Learn

2022 | Lehi, UT

Duerden, M. D.

Areas of Expertise

Curiosity leads to empathy which drives creativity. Both curiosity and creativity can be developed as competencies.

Leveraging creative constraints to design extraordinary experiences

The connection between curiosity, empathy, and creativity

Designing and staging high-quality park and recreation experiences using co-creation

Lego Serious Play Facilitator

The role of journaling in reflective writing in experiential education: A case study intervention

Designing experiences to foster human connection is one of the most important and impactful outcomes experience designers can target.

Experience Intelligence (XQ) is the ability to intentionally, design, stage, and engage in experiences.

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The visual mapping of experiences is one of the powerful tools for both designing and implementing experiences.

Experience Mapping Workshop

The continual improvement of experiences requires intentional evaluation strategies and the use of effective measurement tools.

Increasing collaborative capitol

Employee Experience: Designing experience to build employee loyalty and make employees the heroes

Authentic Assessment

Experience evaluation lightning round presentation

From play to performance: Building an effective organization

Human centered design (HCD) drives the experience design process. A design process focused on the needs of those being designed form keeps the process grounded in real world needs.

Design thinking for recognition

Design thinking and the Marriott School

Extraordinary experiences (i.e., memorable, meaningful, and transformative) each have unique characteristics, impacts, and associated design strategies.

We process and share our experiences through the stories we tell about them. Accordingly, an understanding of the structure and impact of stories can prove invaluable in the design of experiences.

The experience design storytelling process: How to design and stage transformative experiences

Experience design storytelling process