I’m an experience designer. I don’t design things, but rather I create deeply emotional experiences that guide people through their unique emotional landscape and, ultimately, shift their perspectives of themselves and the world around them.

The central theme of my work is, what I call the, “transitional moment.” It’s the moment when we’ve left what was but have not yet entered what will be. In this liminal space, people shift into a state of consciousness, a way of being that integrates their internal and external worlds, revealing fundamental truths unique to them, and only them.

It’s the space where meaning is not found, but rather revealed.

Some forms I’ve created that invite such revelations are audio immersive experiences, a barefoot walk through the woods, analog interactive objects, experimental media and film, large-scale digitally immersive exhibitions, and so much more.

I’ve been fortunate to work with diverse people and groups operating at the forefront of emotion and experience, including The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Inclusive Insight Psychotherapy and Consulting, Ogilvy, Evidence Design, The Hettema Group, Odyssey Works, and many other luminary creative minds.

Prior to my work as an experience designer, I still explored the transitional moment but did so by researching pattern formation in biological systems at the University of Chicago where I earned my Ph.D. in 2017.

Kristen Witte, they/them/theirs

Contact me

for collaborations or other project information

witte.kristen@gmail.com