Emma-Jade De Moor

HCI/Design PhD student

Learning from book designers to create simple yet powerful interaction paradigms for collaboration in layout design tools.

Education

• PhD (since oct. 2025)
• ExSitu team (LISN) and Centre de Recherche en Design, Université Paris-Saclay
  Directed by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (LISN)
  with the co-supervision of Wendy Mackay (LISN) and Lorène Picard (CRD)
• Subject: Interaction and Collaboration Paradigms for Layout Design

• Master 2 Research in Design (2024-2025)
• École Normale Supérieure, Paris-Saclay
• Article & Project: "An Empirical Study of Contemporary Layout Practices, for Designing Web-Based Interaction Paradigms"

• DSAA Design Graphique / Higher Diploma in Applied Arts, Graphic Design (2022-2024)
• ésaat, Roubaix
• Master thesis: "How We Work, How We Might Work"
• Project: Template-based visual identity for a motricity and volleyball club.
  Graphic Design and web-based custom tool developpement with Inès El Kerraz.

• DNMADe Édition Multi-Supports / National Diploma of Fine Arts and Design, Multi-Format Publishing (2019-2022)
• ésaat, Roubaix
• Bachelor thesis: Partipatory Graphic Design
• Project: Web-based visual identity and printed medias for a code and technology workshops organization.

• Mise à Niveau en Arts Appliqués / Applied Arts Transition Program (2018-2019)
• ésaat, Roubaix
• Introductory courses to: Design Object, Interior, Fashion and Graphic Design / Visual Expression & Industrial Drawing

Research Experience

• Research Intern (6 months, 2025)
• ExSitu team (LISN/Inria), Université Paris-Saclay
  Supervised by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon & Wendy Mackay
• – Led an HCI/Design project through empirical studies of Book Design practices, leading to the development on my PhD subject.
• – Contributed to the design of the OnePub multi-format publishing platform.

Teaching Experience

As a Teaching Assistant

• Design of Interactive System, Teaching Assistant of Wendy Mackay (2025) and Janin Koch (2026)
• HCI Master, Université Paris-Saclay
• Hands-on class based on the Design of Interactive Things Methods

• Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction, Teaching Assistant of Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (2026, 2027)
• 2^nd year of Bachelor in Computer Science, Université Paris-Saclay
• Hands-on class introducing fundamental HCI concepts (Objects of Interest, Conceptual Model, etc.) and methods (Interviews, Surveys, Evaluation Walkthrough, GOMS, etc.)

Juries

• Jury for the final presentations of Research in Design diploma projects with Lorène Picard and Pauline Gourlet
• M2 Research in Design, ENS Paris-Saclay
• Focusing on: research problems, methods and contriutions of students' diploma projects in various Design Fields

Design Experience

• Graphic Designer (since 2022)
• Freelance/Volunteering
• HTML to Print Layout Design
• Zines and Visual Identities

Internships

• Graphic Designer Intern (June - July 2023)
• Studio Disco, Lille
• Artistic Direction: Web Design and Photography
• Design: Patterns and Logotype

• Graphic Designer and Developper Intern (May - June 2023
• Luuse ASBL, Brussels
• Development: Colaboration with Luuse members on a documentation tool for PerformID workshop cycles
• Design and Development: Website building using Zotero's API

• Graphic Designer and Printer Intern (April - June 2021)
• Mr. Arno, Wasquehal
• Creation and execution of a creative roadmap for the launch of the C'est Mon Disque brand
• Prepress: File preparation, Color Matching and Priting for Fine Art Printing (Digigraphie)
• Customer Relationship Management