Thu, Nov 13, 2025

How Vincent Suzat Trains Graphic Design Students in Interactive App Development

Vincent Suzat is one of PandaSuite’s earliest adopters. A multi-disciplinary creative from the cultural sector, he is now Head of Education at Cercle Digital in Tours, a graphic design and communication school where he trains students in design, graphics, photography, video, and interactive digital media.

Before teaching, he co-founded Electric News, a website about digital publishing, and led numerous projects in advertising, events, and museum design. This journey reflects a strong conviction: digital creation should be accessible to everyone, even without development skills.

His students, often coming from print or image backgrounds, discover interactivity for the first time. According to Vincent, PandaSuite “proves to them that creating interactive applications is within their reach, even without coding.”

Discovering PandaSuite

In 2015, when no-code solutions were just beginning to emerge, Vincent was looking for a way to create interactive applications without coding. After testing several tools including Aquafadas, he discovered PandaSuite at a trade show.

We were blown away by what you showed us: the UX, the way to use the tool, the possible interactions… When someone showed me that a breath on the phone could make a hot air balloon take off, I nearly fell off my stool.

The first hours were disorienting: PandaSuite doesn’t work like Adobe software. Everything changed when he attended a workshop at our offices.

He has a vivid memory of that meeting:

I remember thinking: how do the four of them manage to create such a high-quality product?

This proximity and technical expertise reinforced his confidence in the tool.

Learning a New Logic, Gaining Freedom

For Vincent, PandaSuite is not just an app creation tool: it’s a grammar of digital, a way to introduce students to programming logic without writing a line of code.

Using a tool like PandaSuite requires adopting a certain logic. It’s what we call programmatic thinking. It’s a grammar, in a way.

He highlights a major difference from other no-code platforms:

Unlike many no-code tools that are already pre-coded, with PandaSuite, they’re still building blocks that you can make interact with each other.

This unique flexibility now structures his pedagogy.

In three hours, his students create a mini-game or first application. Then a 15 to 18-hour curriculum opens the doors to interactive prototyping, storytelling, and UX.

In continuing education, adults reach the same breakthrough in just a few days: PandaSuite allows them to understand digital logic without technical complexity.

From Classroom to Real Projects

In his courses, PandaSuite becomes a true digital creation lab. Students use it to:

• create advanced interactive prototypes (a natural alternative to Adobe XD for active prototyping),
• imagine immersive experiences,
• design complete applications.

Among notable projects:

• an interactive 3D prototype (GLB) for a motorcycle transport box;
• a geolocated application retracing a Paris–Tours journey;
• an interactive treasure hunt in Central Park;
• an application for a music festival, synchronized with beacons and Eddystone;
• Tours de sang (Tours of Blood), an interactive project showcasing bloody stories that took place in Tours.

Thanks to PandaSuite, they also explore phygital, a domain often inaccessible to non-developers: interactions with tangible objects, real-time synchronization, App-to-App control, interactive scenography.

These experiences develop a true digital culture, based on understanding architecture, event logic, and how digital products work.

Features That Make the Difference

The feature that most impresses Vincent is without hesitation synchronization, a core element of PandaSuite.

One of the most complicated features to understand at first, but the one you turn to as soon as you want to go beyond small ready-made functions, is sync. Being able to synchronize anything with anything else is completely magical.

Thanks to it, he teaches:

• parallax effects,
• visual timers,
• sensor usage (gyroscope, breath, acceleration),
• event logic.

The addition of the data binding feature further enhances the tool’s power: one student designed an application that selects a color, poem, and music each morning based on the weather.

Results and Perspectives

With PandaSuite, Vincent has been able to develop ambitious applications without coding, while collaborating effectively with developers.

I could clearly see that we spoke the same language. I had gained real technical credibility with developers.

But above all, the educational impact is tangible: his students, often from traditional graphic design backgrounds, learn to create apps without code, to prototype quickly and understand digital logic.

Several have obtained internships and positions thanks to projects created with PandaSuite. For Vincent, the conclusion is clear:

For me, PandaSuite is truly a unique tool on the market.

He continues to use PandaSuite to train a new generation of hybrid designers, capable of combining creativity, interactive storytelling, and technological understanding.

Training the Next Generation of Digital Creatives

Vincent Suzat’s experience at Cercle Digital demonstrates that PandaSuite is not just a creation tool: it’s a true educational lever that enables introduction to interactive digital without technical barriers.

In just a few hours, students from graphic design or photography backgrounds understand digital logic and create their first applications. In a few weeks, they master interactive prototyping, UX, and develop a true digital culture.

This approach addresses current creative education challenges: training versatile profiles capable of designing complete digital experiences, and giving them the keys to access a constantly evolving job market.

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