UX + Sustainable Design
summary
Argues that UX must cut product and service footprints by designing for lifecycle and behavior change, not just aesthetics, backing it with examples: compost weigh stations and Seventh Generation labeling for ingredient transparency, Apple's Liam that disassembles phones, and the claim that nine billion pods are produced annually for single‑serve brewers. Recommends concrete tactics for digital products — minify CSS and JavaScript, responsive images, avoid huge libraries, green hosting — and cites surprising metrics like needing roughly five Earths if everyone consumed like developed countries.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00The Problem
- 4:30Sustainable Design
- 6:30User Experience
- 7:30Product Lifecycle
- 9:00Single Serve Coffee
- 12:00Optimizing Sites
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