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.

With a fresh year ahead of us we have the opportunity for new projects, new thoughts, new mindsets. Get connected with your own vision for this year. What goals do you have? How do you want to feel this year? What do you want to change? You can allow yourself to take time and breathe.

What is your vision? Allow yourself to find your niche, your passion topic. You don't have to do it all. You can. But you don't have to. Were lies your passion? In ethical research, eco-friendly websites, socially sustainable UX Design, gender diversity, accessibility, ecologically sustainable e-commerce, specific methods or areas?

Before the year comes to an end some data trash needs to go. In this episode you'll find a step by step plan on what topics to think of and what data trash to look out for. We will cleanup your emails, your cloud, your laptop, your smartphone, your website and your social media presence.

Join me on this bonus episode and get connected with Mother Nature. Imagine immersing yourself in the environment on planet Earth. Visit forests, oceans, islands, glaciers, rivers, beaches and much more.

With everything we're doing we have an impact on everything around us. Also with our projects, products and services. Whether it's our desired target groups, the society around them, people within the manufacturing process or animals and ecosystems in our environment.

Have you been stressed by a website, app or software before? I bet yes. Image you open up a website, you have to click away a cookie banner, a newsletter pop-up, a push notification pop-up, a request for your location. Then content is sliding in from all sides and it might even be a booking page that tells you only 2 rooms are left and they sell out in minutes. Ahh! Your brain is buzzing and you haven't even started getting into the content of the page.

It's always extremely helpful to connect with others that are on the same mission. Being in those communities helped me a lot to feel not alone. To have a place to go to.

Did you know you can save battery life with your choice of color palette on your website, app or social media posts? It is true! At least when your user's device is an OLED display.

How can you sell sustainable web design to clients, colleagues and corporate stakeholders?

Today I'll give you deep insights into my personal background story. My journey of getting into UX/UI design and later on into sustainable web design.

There are so many wordings of frameworks out there that it can get very confusing. Environment Centered Design, Planet Centric Design, Life Centered Design. Is it the same? Is it different?

What the heck can be understood as sustainable UX/UI design? That's a question I want to answer today.

Welcome to the "Green the Web" podcast!