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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Ara J. Berberian

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Ara J. Berberian

Ara J. Berberian first caught the UX bug while working in Tokyo for a software company during the dot-com boom. His current work in the field of experience design ranges from finance to fashion. He’s also had the pleasures and pains of trying to launch startups with big visions in local search, personal finance, and even interactive clothing; landofberberia.com.

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Book Excerpt  ·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis
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Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  ·  7 pieces  ·  April 2025