Margherita Motta
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.
Related projects
Scientific publications
Reflection, proactive guidance and microlearning: Evaluation of a conversational agent for food literacy.
Emily Groves, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Gabriel Luthier, Andrea Rovescalli, Delphine Ribes, Nicolas Henchoz, and Margherita Motta. 2026. Reflection, proactive guidance and microlearning: Evaluation of a conversational agent for food literacy. In Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–20.
NordiCHI 2026
Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design.
Margherita Motta, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Luis Rodriguez Aguayo, Laura Deschl, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves. 2026. Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
DRS Design Research Society