Workshop
How to design control rooms with user-centred design?

26 March 2026 | 09:00 to 13:00
LIST - Maison de l'Innovation Belval

About this workshop

Want to design large-screen interfaces that truly work for your users? Need a control room adapted to your specificities? Join our hands-on session and discover how to apply user-centred design (UCD) to real-world, large-screen, data-heavy environments. 

Details 
Designing effective interfaces for complex, data-rich environments, such as control rooms, requires more than creativity – it requires a deep understanding of users, their tasks, and their context. This workshop offers a practical introduction to user-centred design (UCD), guiding participants through the process of designing interfaces with a strong focus on usability, collaboration, and real-world application. 

What you will get 
Over the course of this interactive session, you will: 
  • Get a live demonstration of a control room to manage the logistics of a hospital control room during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Interact with tangible tables in LIST cognitive environment lab 
  • Explore the challenges of designing for large-screen control rooms and collaborative spaces. 
  • Learn the principles of UCD and how to apply them in practice. 
  • Explore the challenges of designing for large-screen control rooms and collaborative spaces. 
  • Design and prototype your control room interface by focusing on a concrete use case: a security control room for incident detection in a plant. 
  • Try up-to-date tools developed by LIST to support you in prototyping control room interfaces and collecting observations about their usage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is ideal for UX designers, engineers, production and security managers, and other professionals who work with data visualization, control rooms, or collaborative systems and want to learn about how to design intuitive, user-centered solutions for large-screens interfaces. 
 Why join 
Because good design isn’t guesswork – it’s user-centred. You’ll leave with practical tools, techniques, and inspiration to create interfaces that are clear, collaborative, and impactful. 

FORMAT 
  • 4-hours workshop, including 2.5 hours of hands-on activities 
  • Observation, brainstorming, and group design work 
  • Use of LIST’s immersive labs with different types of wall-displays and touch tables 

What you will learn 
Participants will leave with: 
  •  A structured approach to integrating UCD into large-screen interface design 
  • Practical experience with designing, observation and evaluation methods 
  • Concrete ideas for improving user interfaces in complex, collaborative settings 
  • Guidelines for large-screen interfaces Spots are limited — secure your place and discover how user-centred design help you to create a control room for your industry. 

Programme

1. Introduction to interface design and the user-centred design approach 
  •  Discover new types of interfaces and interaction modalities 
  • Specificities of a large-screen interface and design guidelines 
 2. Discover 
  •  Test the ReSurf project interface, a hospital logistics control room during the COVID-19 pandemic 
  •  Discover LIST OBS environment to observe users in interaction 
  • Visit of LIST labs 
 3. Design your own wall-sized display interface for a security control room using user-centred design methods 
  • Train to do interviews using an LLM 
  • Imagine your solution & storyboard it, based on your gathered data 
  • Discover and use the SurfaceDesigner, a prototyping tool developed by LIST for multi-displays and large-screen interfaces 
  • Evaluate the designed interface. 
4. Conclusion and resources recommendations

Speakers

LS

Lou Schwartz

LIST
UX Designer
LJ

Laurence JOHANNSEN

LIST
Researcher
VM

Valérie Maquil

LIST
Researcher

When ? 

📅 26 March 2026 
🕘  09:00-13:00

Where ? 

📍 LIST Maison de l’Innovation, Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette

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