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

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Jason Gillard

Jason Gillard, a writer for Media Contour, is a designer who understands user experience, interaction design, usability, and prototyping and adds to that strong visual design skills. He has been described as a UX Unicorn, that mythical creature with adaptive design skills, but prefers to be compared to the Ox. In spite of his visual design adroitness he believes that simplicity is the key to great experiences. This simplicity can be achieved through the design of an experiential framework, which creates a dialogue with the user, rather than the design of art assets, which create a single impression.Jason sees design as an ongoing conversation that adapts and responds to the changing needs of the audience. Converse with Jason on Twitter.

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