Lara Défayes
Lara is an interaction designer from Switzerland. She has a BA in Media & Interaction Design from ECAL and an MAS in Design Research for Digital Innovation from the EPFL+ECAL Lab. Fascinated by digital culture, her motivation is to create meaningful design systems. By placing simplicity at the centre of her design practice, she aims to give people inclusive digital experiences.
At the EPFL+ECAL Lab, Lara works as a project manager, art director and design lead. She has worked on projects ranging from information perception, digital heritage to wellbeing & health. She also teaches with Nicolas Henchoz on the EPFL course for Digital Humanities: Design Research for Digital Innovation and runs the MAS Studio Projects with Romain Collaud.
Related projects
Scientific publications
Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement.
André Andrade, Emily Groves, Lara Défayes, Delphine Ribes, Mathieu Salzman, Andrea Schneider, and Nicolas Henchoz. 2022. Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement. Pages on Art and Design 23 (December 2022), 165–182.
Pages on Arts and Design
Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding.
Romain Collaud, Irene Reppa, Lara Défayes, Sinè McDougall, Nicolas Henchoz, and Andreas Sonderegger. 2022. Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding. Displays 74, (September 2022), 102290.
Displays