Bio
Ronel has been active in interactive media since 1998, blending his expertise in industrial design and visual communication design. His career spans a wide range of design practices, including the founding of Mantis, a Tel Aviv-based firm he led until its sale in 2011. Under his leadership, Mantis delivered impactful projects for leading brands, museums, and corporations around the world.
Ronel began teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2003 and later joined the faculty, working across BA and MDes programs in multiple departments. He also served for seven years as head of the Interactive Design program within the Visual Communication department. His research focuses on human experiences in physical and virtual spaces, and he is currently a visiting associate researcher at the DLX Design Lab at the University of Tokyo, exploring the societal impacts of near-future technologies.
For more than a decade, Ronel has led courses and workshops at leading universities and conferences around the world, including in Germany, Japan, China, Spain, the USA, and Turkey. Alongside his academic work, he has launched numerous ventures in design and technology, developing new theories and frameworks for understanding human factors in experience design.
Ronel’s work has earned multiple awards, with career highlights spanning global initiatives, self-funded ventures, experimental projects, and collaborations with startups, corporations, museums, and financial institutions.
For more than two decades, Ronel has held academic appointments at universities in Israel, specializing in the teaching of interaction and experience design across undergraduate and graduate programs.
from business and service transformation strategies to building design and innovation capabilities, from experience design to end-to-end product delivery - for corporate giants, governments, and digital agencies, along with some beautiful journeys with startups.