Margherita Motta

Senior UX Designer

Margherita is a designer and researcher. She holds a BS and a MS in Communication Design from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation from the EPFL+ECAL Lab. She’s passionate about exploring the internet, investigating artistic practice and building meaningful digital interfaces and experiences.

At the lab she works as a project manager, senior interaction designer and design lead. She works on projects ranging from sustainability to digital well-being and health. She also jointly coordinates the MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation and gives courses on user studies and qualitative research methods.

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Scientific publications

Capturing Food Culture for Adaptive AI: Generative Insights from a Multimodal Profiling Study.

Zeynep Erol, Emily Groves, Sebastian Baez Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta. 2026. Capturing Food Culture for Adaptive AI: Generative Insights from a Multimodal Profiling Study. In Tareq Ahram and Adrian Morales Casas (Eds.), 2026 Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI): Artificial Intelligence and Future Applications (AHFE) International Conference.

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Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI)

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2026