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

Product Designer
Phylicia Flynn

I’m a hardworking yet light-hearted UX Designer trying to positively impact people’s lives through creative problem solving. I strongly believe in the power of design thinking to create not only functional solutions, but inspiring solutions as well.Coming from the architecture world, human-centered design is my jam. I worked as an Interior Designer in world-renowned architecture firms for the first 5 years of my professional career. With my main focus on workplace transformation, I learned the importance of understanding your user group to properly design the physical space. Many ideologies can cross over from designing physical space to designing digital space.When not googly eyed from a great interface or a beautiful old building, you can find me at a coffee shop with a good read trying to pet every dog I see. 

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