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

Microsoft
Nishant Kothary

As the Creative Director and founding member of the grassroots MIX Online Web community (https://visitmix.com/about/), Nishant enjoys wearing multiple hats—content strategist, information architect, UI designer, product strategist, writer, speaker and occasional developer. He passionately champions UX—from great content to keynote strategy—for the annual MIX conference. In his past life, Nishant has worked at Amazon.com on products like Unbox and Kindle, collaborated with top-notch design agencies, taught courses at Purdue University, and written a book or two (https://amzn.com/0766829103). He lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife, two cats, and notorious Weimaraner, Yoshi (https://twitter.com/yoweim). In his free time you can find him playing the guitar, reading, flicking through RSS feeds on his phone, or indulging trashy television viewing habits. His personal web site is https://rainypixels.com.

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