Romain Collaud
Romain is a graphic and interaction designer, researcher and educator. He has a BA in visual communication from ECAL and an MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation from the EPFL+ECAL Lab. His research interests include human-computer interaction with a social approach, semiotic studies, and perceived aesthetics.
He works as an art director, project manager and design lead on several projects at the lab, ranging from strengthening social ties to valorizing cultural heritage. He imagines seemingly simple design systems to provide access to complex data environments. He developed and oversees the user research methods academic module and the studio projects.
He also teaches digital prototyping and UX principles to ECAL and EPFL students.
Related projects
Scientific publications
Open Books: Supporting the Comprehension of Photobooks as Sequential Art.
Rémi Opalinski, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Andrea Schneider, Delphine Ribes, Gabriel Luthier, Cédric Duchêne, Béatrice Durandard, Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, and Romain Collaud. 2026. Open Books: Supporting the Comprehension of Photobooks as Sequential Art. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. HCII 2026. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16725. Springer, Cham.
Jean Starobinski. Relations critiques. Recherches théoriques et évaluation de l’expérience utilisateur pour une mesure de l’impact hédonique.
Stéphanie Cudré-Mauroux, Nicolas Henchoz, and Romain Collaud. 2026. Jean Starobinski. Relations critiques: Recherches théoriques et évaluation de l’expérience utilisateur pour une mesure de l’impact hédonique. In D. Martens & I. Roussel-Gillet (Eds.), Exposition de la littérature: Enjeux, pratiques et Histoire (pp. 167–180). Presses universitaires de Rennes.
Exposition de la littérature: Enjeux, pratiques et Histoire