体验设计是一种整体的，综合的设计方法，着重于具体情况下人类体验的质量。它采用调查，分析，创造力和技术作为工具来理解人类的目标，需求和欲望，并调解人类的经验。东北大学的“体验设计”计划采用研究驱动的设计思维来进行企业家精神和创新，专注于当今重要的全球挑战。例如，在医疗保健方面，经验设计人员不会将重点放在隔离任何一种技术产品，信息系统或物理空间的设计上。相反，设计人员负责了解和改善在住院之前和期间以及通过后续护理影响患者的事件和交互的整体顺序。
Experience Design is a holistic and integrative approach to design that focuses on the quality of the human experience in concrete situations. It employs investigation, analysis, creativity and technology as tools to understand human goals, needs, and desires and to mediate the human experience. The Experience Design program at Northeastern University embraces research-driven design thinking for entrepreneurship and innovation, focusing on important global challenges of today.The Graduate Program in Experience Design is designed to prepare students to become vital contributors and leaders of professional experience design teams where technological innovation intersects with design. Successful graduates will be able to analyze how people undergo real-world situations, enabling them to enrich experiences by orchestrating new design-driven relationships. They will be equipped with the skills to identify shortcomings as well as opportunities for improved engagement between artifacts, systems (virtual or physical), and the humans who encounter them.<br>Through examining how people behave in real contexts in relation to the constructed world and emerging technologies, CAMD's graduate degrees in Experience Design allow graduates from design and other disciplines (such as architecture, business, engineering, communications, computer science, healthcare, humanities and the social sciences) or working professionals to gain knowledge and experience in the design competencies needed to address societal challenges. To accomplish these goals, students will learn how to invoke cooperation, collaboration and integration across disciplines and practices.