About - Anaëlle Beignon

Interaction designer and PhD Student

I'm interested in the issues surrounding digital uses, particularly environmental constraints, which I'm exploring as part of my thesis. My design practice is often fieldwork-based.

My PhD research explores the transformative effects of digital services’ design on digital practices : “use intensification”. I study how the unsustainable conjoint evolution of digital design and practices is driven by the application of user-centered design methods and principles.

Publications

Beignon, A., Tabard, A., & Maudet, N. (2026, April). How Interface Design Choices Lead to Indirect Environmental Impacts Through Use Intensification. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Beignon, A., Thibault, T., & Maudet, N. (2025). Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability. LIMITS'25.

Graduate education and internships

Vuillemot, R., Rivière, P., Beignon, A., & Tabard, A. (2021, June). Boundary objects in design studies: Reflections on the collaborative creation of isochrone maps. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 349-360).
Vuillemot, R., Rivière, P., Beignon, A., & Tabard, A. (2021, June). Conception d'une carte isochrone simplifiée pour visualiser l'accessibilité aux transports urbains. In Cartomob.
Beignon, A., Brulé, E., Joatton, J. B., & Tabard, A. (2020, July). Tricky design probes: Triggering reflection on design research methods in service design. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1647-1660).

Other scientific events

2024 - Ongoing. Participated in the doctoral seminar led by Vivien Philizot at the ACCRA laboratory.
2025 - Ongoing. Participated in a multidisciplinary seminar on deceptive design patterns organized by Flora Brochier and Karl Pineau.
February 2026. Presentation on design and use intensification at the barcamp of the "datacenter-free" hosters deux fleurs.
February 2026. Attended the 3 days academic event TransNumériques 2026.
January 2026. Participation at the SICT doctoral school.
November 2025. Participation at IHM conference in Toulouse, co-organization of a workshop for the 'GT IHM & écologie' with Lou Grimal and Laetitia Bornes.
October 2025. Reviewer for the CHI conference.
March 2024. Reviewer for the DIS conference.
March 2024. Participation at a workshop led by a french research group on sustainable HCI during the IHM conference.
March 2024. Participation at a rebound effects workshop led by the PARIS-DE research team (UK).

Graduate education

June 2022. Dissipating the mist workshop with peers working on cloud services impacts, Brussels.

Masters' thesis: Beignon, A. (2021). Design for obsolete devices.: Exploring the marginalization of users of obsolete devices regarding the Swedish public services’ digitalization.

October 2021. Redaction of a newsletter article for "Other Worlds Journal".

July 2021. Live interview in "The user condition" podcast.

2018. Student volunteer at the Interaction 18 conference (Lyon, France).

Academic presentations

April 2026. Presentation of our paper at the CHI 2026 conference (Barcelona).
March 2026. Presentation on the environmental impacts and regulation of deceptive design patterns at the dark patterns seminar organized by Flora Brochier and Karl Pineau.
March 2026. Presentation on design-led environmental effects at the research seminar of the laboratory ELLIADD (Belfort-Montbéliard).
January 2026. Short presentation of my PhD research at the SICT doctoral school (Brussels).
January 2026. Communication on design-led indirect effects at the launching day of the SOCLOUD academic project (Besançon).
October 2025. Communication on design and sufficiency at the doctoral conference day on PhDs in art (Strasbourg).
June 2025. Presentation of our paper at the computing within Limits conference.
April 2025. Communication at the journée d'études "agency day" (Journée de l'agentivité) (PEPR/ SCAI, campus Jussieu, Paris): The way design choices shape use intensification.
April 2025. Presentation at a seminar on digital disconnection (Strasbourg).
March to May 2025. Co-organisation of a seminar for art students (ACCRA, Strasbourg) with Simon Zara and Nolwenn Maudet on digital disconnection.
April 2025. Co-organisation of a conferences day (journée d'études) at the University of Strasbourg with Nolwenn Maudet on (non)ecological representation of digital technologies.
January 2025. Presentation of a poster summarizing the results of my first study (Paris).
November 2024. Conference on design's role in environmental effects in duo with Nolwenn Maudet (UTBM Belfort).
October 2024. Presentation of research results at LISN PHD seminar (Paris Saclay University).
October 2024. Communication at the doctoral day of the ACCRA laboratory. Introduction to the work conducted in my PhD.

Graduate education

July 2020. Presentation of my published article "Tricky Design Probes" at the DIS conference.

Large audience and media apparitions

January 2026. Interviewed on design-led use intensification on the newsletter 'de la Tech à la Terre'.
December 2025. Co-wrote a press box for the french newspaper Le Monde.
December 2025. Presentation on design and AI at the Green IO conference.
December 2025. Presentation of preliminary research results on UX designers' ways of implementing sufficiency in their projects. Invitation at the webinar of the french association 'Designers Éthiques'.
October 2025. Inteviewed by radio canada.
October 2025. Intervention in a round table on AI at the event Numérique en communs.
February 2025. Collective talk on AI's environmental effects at the profesionnal eco-design conference "Journée de l'éco-conception".
February 2025. Facilitation of a design workshop on induction effects, led with 18 designers at the eco-design conference "Journée de l'éco-conception".
February 2025. Collective interview on AI's environmental effects for the Media "Vert".
October 2024. Round table for the non-profit HOP on digital obsolescence at the even "les Journées de la Réparation" at the Shadok (Strasbourg).

Graduate education and early professional life

May 2022. Journée de l'éco-conception. Participation in the organisation of the event organised by the association Designers Éthiques, beta.gouv and leBonCoin.

November 2022. Facilitation of a round table titled "Public Service Design across the world. Ethics by design conference.

June 2022. Numérique en Commun[s] event. Conference on public services' digitalization. Workshop facilitation.

January 2022. Interview on the tech podcast Techologie to present my masters' thesis.

2018. Exhibition of a critical design installation at the digital arts event "Mirage Festival".

Projects and partnerships

Limites Numériques research collective.
PEPR eNSEMBLE research program (funding program).
Cultures visuelles research program.
Design en recherche research non-profit.
Association Design Social Grand Est

Past experiences

2024-Ongoing
PhD in design, University of Strasbourg
Working on the environmental effects of digital collaboration uses. Director: Vivien Philizot; Co-advisors: Nolwenn Maudet & Aurélien Tabard. Research projects and programs: Limites Numériques, Cultures Visuelles, PEPR eNSEMBLE (funding program).

2022-2023
UX researcher at Plateaux Numériques
Fieldwork and artifact design of a mediation tool on digital exclusion aimed at local councillors. Designed in the larger picture of the Plateaux Numériques project.

2021-2023
UX researcher at Beta.gouv
User research for a digital service of the french public employment agency.

2020, 2 months
Research engineer, LIRIS laboratory, Lyon
Framing and layout of a research project catalogue.

2018-2019
Design researcher trainee, LIRIS laboratory, Lyon
Research project on the data visualisation on urban mobility. Workshop facilitation, empirical material exploration and production of a guide. Participation in the redaction of academic articles. Training supervisor: Aurélien Tabard (LIRIS)

2018, 1 month
Design researcher trainee, Télécom Paris Tech
Preparation of the process and facilitation artifacts for the IEE VIS 2018 Workshop "Towards a Design Language for Data Physicalization" in Berlin. on the data visualisation on urban mobility. Workshop facilitation, empirical material exploration and production of a guide. Participation in the redaction of academic articles. Training supervisor: Samuel Huron (LIRIS)

Background

2019-2021
Interaction design Master, Malmö University
Masters' thesis: design for Obsolete Devices

2017-2019
DSAA in Interaction Design, Pôle Supérieur de design de Villefontaine (Lyon)
Paper accepted at DIS on my DSAA's thesis, see Tricky Design Probes in the Publication section. Academic research trainee at the LIRIS Computer Sciences lab.

2015-2017
BTS in Graphic Design, Lycée Bréquigny (Rennes)