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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Juan Manuel Carraro

User Experience, Service Design & Design Thinking Practices Leader
Juan Manuel Carraro

Juan helps organizations and startups to build better products and provide services that delight customers in a profitable way for the business. He leads, trains and mentor teams to incorporate User Experience, Service Design and Design Thinking processes and technics through a Human-Centered and Agile approach. For the last 15 years he has worked for technology and service companies, entrepreneurs, consulting and interactive agencies developing projects in Latam and the United States. Juan is a lecturer, academic advisor and regular speaker at seminars and other related events on User Experience, Service Design, Design Thinking and Lean UX. He holds a Masters Degree in Economy and Business Administration from ESEADE, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. 

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