2016 Nov - World Usability Day Prague - Planet Friendly Digital Design
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This is the deck I presented at World Usability Day in Prague, Czech Republic in 2016. It's loosely based around the 4 pillars of sustainable design as described in Tim Frick's book, Design for Sustainability and was followed by a short workshop.
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2016 Nov - World Usability Day Prague - Planet Friendly Digital Design
- 1. Planet friendly Digital Design Chris Adams @mrchrisadams productscience.co.uk
- 2. 2. 30m: Principles of Design for Sustainability 3. 50m: Trying it out yourself, then discussion 1. ~5m: Introduction, and a chance to avoid FOMO
- 3. Who am I? Chris Adams - @mrchrisadams environmentally focussed web generalist
- 4. Who am I? Designer, then Developer, then Sysadmin, then Developer again, then Product Manager, then UX Consultant, then User Researcher. Now (nearly) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
- 5. (Previously relevant) Work A.M.E.E. - Avoid Mass Extinction Engine Loco2 - Low carbon travel
- 7. amee.com
- 8. loco2.com
- 9. Cleanweb London - James Johnston practice pitching Open Utility
- 10. Cleanweb London - what James was seeing
- 11. Cleanweb Berlin - putting ideas to practice
- 12. Cleanweb Berlin - putting ideas to practice
- 14. Why would I care?
- 15. Our activity is changing the planet
- 16. xkcd.com/1732/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video. I just shows me scrolling down the screen narrating as I go. Not much missed TBH.
- 17. worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video. It just shows me moving the widget around. Give it a go yourself. It’s loads of (terrifying, depressing) fun.
- 18. What can I do? I work on the web. And anyway, the web’s green right?
- 20. Webs & apps use servers. Servers need electricity. How much electricity?
- 21. Power quote
- 23. Nearly one billion tonnes CO2 and rising (More than Poland, and growing faster) Source: Greenpeace Click Clean Report
- 24. What can we do?
- 26. How we do this for physical products
- 27. How we might do this for digital products — Dr. Pete Markiewicz
- 28. FINDABILITY USABILITY PERFORMANCE GREEN HOSTING
- 29. USABILITY
- 30. Usability Responsive design and mobile first Content and display patterns Testing content before publishing Build feedback into user journeys Dark patterns and sustainable choices
- 31. http://patternlab.io/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video, but it is available at patternlab.io
- 32. http://danielmall.com/articles/content-display-patterns/ Sorry online viewers, same again here. It IS available at the link below though.
- 36. darkpatterns.org
- 38. Performance Performance budgets Compression Appropriate media for devices Caching CDNs
- 44. The best, greenest request is one you don’t make
- 45. FINDABILITY
- 46. Findability Content experiments - have a feedback loop Content Audits - keep, kill, or merge Content first design - designing with real data User language vs your language - i.e search On-site Search - reveals gaps in content, ux issues
- 47. GREEN HOSTING
- 48. Green hosting Efficiency isn’t the same as sustainable Green Web Foundation Finding a host
- 51. https://www.instagram.com/strangeanimals_/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/
- 53. Stuff you can do tomorrow, for real
- 54. ecograder.com
- 57. You can make beautiful, lightweight green sites
- 60. @mrchrisadams Thanks! Any questions? Book: oreil.ly/sustainability (50% discount with link above) Websites: sustainablewebdesign.org ecograder.org sustainableux.com
- 61. Worksheet exercise Now it’s your turn
- 62. Now it’s your turn Take a worksheet Assign roles Start task Regroup in 15mins
- 63. Present back, and time for questions
- 64. Fishbowl 5 seats 4 people sitting, 1 empty chair, always Sit in a chair to ask a question, or say something. You can only leave when someone else sits in an empty chair.