Designing for change: how UX can help solve the climate crisis.
summary
Argues that UX can cut real emissions by shrinking page weight, deleting unused content, and changing defaults; gives concrete numbers like 50 grams per large email and 10,000 emails per worker per year to quantify impact. Recommends a content and data audit, lifecycle thinking, and setting a carbon budget/page weight metric. Lists practical tools to measure and track results: Website Carbon Calculator, Digital Beacon, Ecorader, Google Lighthouse, Green Web Foundation CO2.js, Ecoping, and Blacklight.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00UX and climate action
- 1:09Digital actions have costs
- 2:36Digital clutter and emissions
- 3:40Measure and reduce footprint
- 5:04Sustainable UX design tools
- 6:27Designing for reuse
- 7:10Nudges for climate behavior
- 8:34Empowering users and change
- 9:15Next steps
- 9:58Recap and call to action
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