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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Danny Bluestone

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Danny Bluestone

Danny is the Founder and CEO of Cyber-Duck, a leading full service digital agency. Inspired by fusing creative, technical, and marketing expertise into a superior user experience, he established the agency in 2005. Now, they work internationally with global brands including Cancer Research Technology, The EU, and Arsenal FC. Leading Cyber-Duck, Danny continues to refine their accredited design process, drawing on lean and agile management methodologies, alongside creative R&D. He enjoys sharing expertise with enterprise, UX, and technology communities, including the UKTI, UX London, and UXPA. His digital insights have been featured in UX Magazine, Econsultancy, and Smashing Magazine.

Contributions to UXM

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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