Kristian Mikhel.
I am a designer based in 🇦🇺 Hobart, building ✱ Paper and Pain, creative agency for good, and working on a PhD in health communication at the University of Tasmania. I design clean air interventions for local communities in rural Australia, write about ✱ accessibility, and ride motorcycles.
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Writing
Smashing Magazine
The Scent Of UX
How smells are used in product design, from immersive entertainment to healing spaces and medical appliances.
Smashing Magazine
The Art Of Looking Back
Practiciting critical reflection as individual contributors in tech.
The Many Deaths of UX Design
How UX was proclaimed dead, and what poses a real threat to the discipline of design.
A foreign designer's ultimate guide to Chinese Internet
How to adapt your mindset and your product to digital life beyond the Great Firewall.
The power of affordable technology
How companies bridge the technological gap and deliver digital services for developing markets.
Speaking
Fusecon 2025
The future is inclusive
How to build accessible products and why it matters.
Fossasia 2024
The power of design for open source
How designers help improve open source products, and why having a designer on board is a fabulous idea.
UX+ 2023
Serving the underserved
Becoming a better designer by helping others.
Design For Good
Designing for open-source, advocating for universal design as a design career.
Accessibility in the Age of Uncertainty
How designers pioneer accessibility, become the voice of the underserved, and stay sane.
Switching Careers into UX
An unexpected journey: how I unknowingly became a UX designer.
Cross–cultural design
How to design experiences for everyone.