How to do counter-UI/UX design
Interfaces help manipulate your sense of reality. As a designer/developer who is part of the plural "user" being …
Micah Alex
I am a Designer, Researcher, and Artist exploring community, technology, archives, and alternative digital infrastructures.
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khattamicah — a play on ‘khatta-meetha’ (sour-sweet) and Micah (meekah).
Articles
How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive
I explore IIIF as a web-standard to host large scale media archive that are backed by IIIF
Establishing a community network
I created a speculative framework to imagine a long-term sustainable community network and its stakeholders
How I use speculative design
I use Speculative design methods to inquire different questions.
Publications
A list of the pieces that I wrote, co-wrote and edited
Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala
A poetic reflection on the hidden rhythms and overlooked details of daily life in Koramangala, Bangalore.
UI/UX Design
Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives
Papad is designed to be used by community-based practitioners to store and access knowledge bases. We were running it …
The Lived Experience Project
Explore the journey of creating a robust knowledge infrastructure to enhance the livelihoods of persons with …
Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives
Milli was an open-source platform designed to make archives more democratic in the described and annotated ways. The …
Pune Covid Relief
Website deployed for dissemination of covid-19 resources
Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar
A transdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Project Potential Trust, Kishanganj, delving into the impact …
Carpooling Unalone - Karwaan
A classroom project doing user research about Carpooling in India leading to a design
Research
Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History
This was a project to create print-ready maps of the cinema halls that existed in Hyderabad from 1936 to 2018.
Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad
This was the output of a 5-week course in Wayanad in Kerala, India in the aftermath of the floods of 2018. The …
Pedagogy
Art that I make
Posters and painting I did for different projects
Portfolio - Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications
A list of the Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications that I organized, spoke, wrote
Seeing, Being, Doing: design
I, co-taught a four month course on responding as a creative practitioner to places where humans and non-humans gather …