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

Giovanni Calabro

Siteworx
Giovanni Calabro

Currently, as Director of User Experience at <a href="https://.siteworx.com">Siteworx</a>, Calabro serves a diverse client base including <span class="caps">AOL</span>, U.S. News &amp; World Report, National Geographic, and Coldwell Banker Commercial. Prior to <a href="https://.siteworx.com">Siteworx</a>, Calabro lead and energized the design team responsible for Washingtonpost.com, including driving the user experience strategy, conducting in-depth user testing and analysis and developing user interaction models, personas, and interactive wireframes. Calabro embraced the challenge of innovating and architecting multiple products including; Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, Rentals, Classifieds, Arts and Living, City Guide, and all search products. Calabro also organized coverage and coordinated design strategy for special projects such as &#8220;Sitewide Redesign,&#8221; &#8220;Iraqi War,&#8221; &#8220;Elections 2004,&#8221; and &#8220;D.C. Sniper Coverage&#8221; for Washingtonpost.com. His team&#8217;s unique approach to covering the D.C. Sniper story was covered as a case study in the use of multimedia and interactivity in the book, &#8220;Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages.&#8221;

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