Green the Web

Animations are one of the 10 energy eating monsters in content design. As all of us play around with animations in different ways and formats, let's have a look at their impact on energy consumption as well as accessibility.

Get an estimation of your website's carbon footprint and start reducing it. There's a couple of amazing tools to support us in that mission.

If you don't set an intention, you let your current work project determine your mood, the outcome, the motivation. Setting an intention means taking control and helps you stay true to your values.

What if 100 million people used your product? You celebrate, meet KPIs and have happy business managers. But what else happens? Especially in an ecological and social sense.

Finding truly meaningful non-human Personas is crucial for a successful integration into businesses. And I often hear people struggling with it. So let's talk about it.

Why should we care about digital accessibility? What are disabilities? What are the areas we need to look out for? And what are tools to check for accessibility issues?

The end of a year is a great time to reflect and ground oneself. It can help to get a deeper connection with our own lives and to not just let it slip by.

How did it go for Sustainable UX/UI Design as well as my business Green the Web in 2023? Let's talk about highlights, successes, tops, flops and things we still need to work on!

There's some challenges around Sustainable UX/UI Design and we should talk about it. A lot more often.

Green UX/UI Design isn't just compressing images. Let's talk about the different topics of lightweight design, energy and carbon aware design, greener eCommerce, behavior psychology, raising awareness, ecological advocacy, bringing ecologically sustainable research methods into your projects, integrating nature into design and decision processes and enabling regeneration.

Applications and services are competing for attention and keeping users involved for hours. We are seducing our users. But should it be for the sake of mental health, time, or even financial debt.

With the start of season two I want to address a couple of misconceptions around sustainable design.

In a world of constant connectivity, sometimes we need to disconnect to reconnect. So let's do a digital detox.

Take a walk in the forest with me. Connect with nature, ground yourself, breathe.

Let's have a look at ways you can make every WordPress website more ecologically sustainable. We will discuss hosting, themes, page builders and plugins. What to look out for, what are challenges and how WordPress can support us on our journey.

Design systems reduce design debt, support reusing and recycling elements, promote collaboration (between designers and developers), and help create a scalable and flexible library.

Data storage is an often forgotten energy eating monster. How is it justified to hoard all of this data in tracking tools, event sign ups, outdated Social Media posts, database fill-ups?

The Green UX/UI Design course is open for enrollment! Save your spot for the live cohort starting on May 4th. Or treat yourself with the self study version.

Over-consumption is killing our environment. It's a fact. We need circular economies, we need involved cradle-to-cradle principles, we need more social sustainability (fair trade, fair rights, ethical production) and ecological sustainability.

Bringing sustainability into companies is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes doors open quickly, sometimes very slowly. But it pays off in the long run.

Sustainability infused User Journey Maps depict an entire process that a hypothetical user can go through AND look at the ecological and social impact of each step.

Which website content elements are better or worse? Is it videos? Is it images? Is it fonts, animations, interactions, click paths or third party tools? Let’s see which ones we need to tackle first and how to optimize or change them.

One part of green web design is reducing your website's carbon footprint. And it's actually one of the more fact-based parts.

Checkouts have a lot of potential for more ecological online purchases. Donation options, green delivery, gentle size selection reminders and much more make our checkouts more ecologically sustainable. It's often tiny elements that conclude in big differences.

Images are everywhere. But do we really need them? What's the carbon footprint of images? Can we optimize them for lower data intensity? Let's get into what images are supposed to do, how we can optimize them creatively and what little tech tricks help for quick improvements.