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Sustainable digital design best practices, ecological and social User Research, Information Architecture, User Interface Design, personal stories, business talk and much more are waiting for you in the "Green the Web" podcast. As UX/UI designers, business owners and change makers, we need to ensure a positive impact on our environment and society. Join along for the ride. Love, Sandy Web: www.greentheweb.com Insta: @greentheweb

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United States

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Sustainable digital design best practices, ecological and social User Research, Information Architecture, User Interface Design, personal stories, business talk and much more are waiting for you in the "Green the Web" podcast. As UX/UI designers, business owners and change makers, we need to ensure a positive impact on our environment and society. Join along for the ride. Love, Sandy Web: www.greentheweb.com Insta: @greentheweb

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English


Episodes
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Optimize animations for lightweight and accessible websites

4/15/2024
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.

Duration:00:18:55

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How to analyze your website's carbon emissions

3/19/2024
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.

Duration:00:28:55

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Navigating projects with intention

2/19/2024
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.

Duration:00:17:23

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What if 100 million people used your product?

2/5/2024
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.

Duration:00:16:59

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How to find your project's non-human Personas

1/22/2024
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.

Duration:00:20:20

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Digital accessibility – 8 areas to look out for

1/8/2024
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?

Duration:00:32:50

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Bonus meditation: End of year reflections

12/25/2023
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.

Duration:00:10:27

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2023 in review – How did it go for Sustainable UX/UI Design?

12/18/2023
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!

Duration:00:26:06

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Real talk: The challenges and frustrations as a sustainable UX/UI designer

12/4/2023
There's some challenges around Sustainable UX/UI Design and we should talk about it. A lot more often.

Duration:00:22:30

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Green UX/UI Design

11/20/2023
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.

Duration:00:23:46

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The power of exit points – Let your users leave

11/6/2023
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.

Duration:00:15:51

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8 common misconceptions around Sustainable UX/UI Design

10/23/2023
With the start of season two I want to address a couple of misconceptions around sustainable design.

Duration:00:16:31

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5 tips for a digital detox + summer break

6/19/2023
In a world of constant connectivity, sometimes we need to disconnect to reconnect. So let's do a digital detox.

Duration:00:21:28

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Bonus episode: A walk in the forest meditation

6/12/2023
Take a walk in the forest with me. Connect with nature, ground yourself, breathe.

Duration:00:11:17

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WordPress quick tips for a greener website

6/5/2023
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.

Duration:00:23:28

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Design Systems and their sustainability power

5/22/2023
Design systems reduce design debt, support reusing and recycling elements, promote collaboration (between designers and developers), and help create a scalable and flexible library.

Duration:00:20:14

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The energy eating monster of data storage

5/8/2023
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?

Duration:00:19:48

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The Green UX/UI Design course is finally open for enrollment

4/24/2023
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.

Duration:00:18:43

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Nudging greener product choices in eCommerce

4/10/2023
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.

Duration:00:19:25

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Integrating sustainable design in companies is a marathon

3/27/2023
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.

Duration:00:21:44