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
Designing to Engage Stakeholders with Water Related Environmental Data: Preliminary Evaluation of a Digital Decision Support Prototype.
Côme Brocas, Romain Collaud, Sebastian Baez Lugo, and Nicolas Henchoz. 2026. Designing to engage stakeholders with water related environmental data: Preliminary evaluation of a digital decision support prototype [Poster presentation]. Regional Mountain Conference 2026, Obergurgl, Austria.
Regional Mountain Conference 2026
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.