Second-year Interaction Design students imagined and prototyped a mobile application exploring the theme “Much Faster / Much Slower.”
The project examines our fascination with speed and slowness in digital interfaces, and how technology shapes our perception of time, attention, and communication.
Building on this tension, students developed app concepts that propose alternative ways of communicating, consuming, or creating content, where rhythm becomes a central element of interaction design. Each project takes the form of an interactive prototype, offering a distinctive and sometimes deliberately non-immediate experience that questions our everyday digital habits.
Studio project (2025) with Alain Bellet
ColLab is an application that encourages waste collection during events. Throughout the event, participants collect the waste around them and add it to the app. Once the collection is complete, the app helps locate a drop-off point directly within the event area. On site, users can scan the waste to sort it correctly into the appropriate bins. Each action earns points: the more waste you collect, the more points you gain. ColLab turns an ecological gesture into a fun and collective experience.
Par Jade Picard
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Delay is a messaging app that allows users to send cards while choosing their delivery date. By enabling a high level of message personalization, Delay invites users to reintroduce intention and time into the messages they send.
Par Benjamin Vermot
PUZZ is a dating app like no other. Here, users do not present themselves directly through images, but in the form of unique puzzle pieces. Each piece is built based on what the person is looking for (love, friendship, or group exchanges), as well as on answers to questions about their personality and preferences. By chatting and interacting, two users begin to form a shared puzzle, which gradually comes together and allows them to discover the person they are talking to, piece by piece.
Par Blendi Mazreku
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Pulse is a running app designed to help runners maintain a consistent pace by synchronizing their movement with music. The app encourages runners to match their stride to the tempo (BPM) of the music they choose; if the runner’s pace becomes too fast or too slow, the music automatically speeds up or slows down, creating a noticeable discomfort. To restore the music to its normal playback, the runner must return to the correct tempo.
Par Matthieu Noël
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Tibor Udvari
Many platforms degrade over time, shifting from useful tools into manipulative systems. In this workshop, we explore enshittification as a creative method by modifying existing websites or developing small web experiments that exaggerate friction, automation, overload, and disorientation in order to reveal the underlying logics.
MA DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DESIGN
with Irene Pereyra
Ethical, Accessible & Mindful Design is a one-week module that trains students to examine the ethical dimensions of design decisions. Through practice, students learn to design experiences that are inclusive, transparent, and considerate of their broader social impact. This semester, the module took low-vision accessibility as its central design constraint. Working under the brief Goodbye to All …, students were asked to guide a user through a permanent, irreversible, and non-negotiable farewell. Beyond WCAG compliance, the exercise required sustained attention to contrast across all interface states, legible typography, keyboard-only navigation, focus visibility, and layout integrity at both 100% and 300% zoom, without loss of hierarchy or readability.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with David Liebermann, Maximilian Kiepe, Jana Reddemann
Hello World! Goodbye predictable, standardized and interchangeable web. Students questioned the conventions of the digital World, explored the Wide possibilities of the medium, and even invented new approaches to interact with the Web. And what better way to give web design meaning than through the students own portfolios, understood as expressions of attitude and personality. https://websites.ecal-mid.ch/
BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
by Gabriel Polgar
In a context marked by the erosion of social rights and the resurgence of far-right discourse, demonstrations are spaces where voices come together and grow stronger. From these gatherings emerges a rare collective energy: words are set free, solidarity is reinforced, and a shared momentum takes hold. Yet this force often fades and disappears far too quickly. Through a web-based design tool grounded in randomness, Tenir la rue, imprimer la rue aims to capture and extend these moments into everyday life. Using collectively gathered and contributed content, this project allows anyone to compose and print their own poster in the street.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
by Dalia Spichtig
Breaking the Narrative is an interactive educational web documentary exploring manosphere narratives. Structured in three parts, it examines the three media formats most used by these communities: video, text, and audio, to analyze their communication and dissemination strategies. Through playful interactions, the project raises awareness of the persuasive mechanisms used by the manosphere while exposing the systemic and ideological realities these narratives often conceal. Aimed primarily at young boys, as well as parents, guardians, and educators, Breaking the Narrative provides tools for understanding, critical analysis, and education around these contemporary issues.