SUX - The Sustainable UX Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

For this episode of the SUX Podcast we were joined by Hannah Smith, who is the Director of Operations of the Green Web Foundation. We spoke about how to make the web fossil free until 2030, if we are on track here and how Designers, Developers and all professions need to join to work towards this goal. But we also spoke about the role of AI in all this and how our use of tech in the northern/western world creates a lot of injustice because of our massive overconsumption of energy. And we dived into AI and the problems that come with it - ecologically as well as socially. 

We spoke about the need of Narrative shifts and what every one of us can do about it and we discussed we not only need to learn but also unlearn frequently.

Like Thorsten, Hannah is loving the outdoors and is trying to do all her travels by train, so we also spoke a little bit about the greatest train travels and our longest trips. And Hannah started a new tradition on the podcast by beginning to ask questions to Thorsten on her own. 

So, if you want to here more about how to get to a fossil free internet, about the role of AI in it and why we need to question it more, but also about beautiful train trips and what Hannah does to re-energize in bad moments, do not hesitate to tune in to this episode of the SUX Podcast.

Connect with our guest or us:

Hannah’s Channels:

Hannah’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanopcan/ 

Green Web Foundation: http://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

Green Tech South West: https://greentechsouthwest.org/

Sources from the episode:

Branch Magazine: https://branch.climateaction.tech/ 

Green Web Foundation: http://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

Green Web Check Service of Green Web Foundation: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/ 

CO2.js: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/co2-js/ 

UX Connect Aarhus: https://www.boye-co.com/conferences/uxconnect24 

Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

This time we were joined by one of the long-time trailblazers of digital Sustainability - Tom Greenwood, Founder of Wholegrain Digital and Author of “Sustainable Webdesign”.

We spoke about digital Sustainability, and how Tom’s Journey into it already began 2004. And we discussed the challenges of advocating for digital sustainability and where we are at the moment and what we actually can do as designers on various levels. 

In the second half of the conversation we were diving deep into AI, its impacts and if AI can help us saving the world or helps destroying it. We were discussing if AI is creative and what the use of AI does to us as humans. 

It was a very deep and inspirational conversation and if you want to learn more what you should ask yourself when using AI, tune in to this episode of the SUX Podcast.

Connect with our guest or us:

Tom’s Channels:

Tom’s agency Wholegrain Digital: https://www.wholegraindigital.com/ 

Tom’s Newsletter “Oximoron”: https://tomgreenwood.substack.com/ 

Toms’ “Humanitas et Machina”: https://hopefulepoch.substack.com/ 

Tom’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgreenwood/ 

Toms’ Book “Sustainable Web Design”: https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/ 

Sources from the episode:

Book “Approaching the Natural” by Sid Garza-Hillman:

https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/ 

Blog-Article: “Will AI be good for the environment?”:

https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/will-ai-be-good-for-the-environment/

Website Carbon Calculator: https://websitecarbon.com  

Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

Have you ever wondered about the relation of sustainability and gender-equality, why it is so important and how our work as designers connects with it?

In today's episode, we dive deep into the world of women-centric design—a powerful approach that takes into account the unique experiences and perspectives of women in the design process. And who better to enlighten us on this topic than today’s guest Mansi.

Mansi is a UX designer and an advocate for women-centric design. She firmly believes that by creating inclusive digital experiences tailored to women's needs, we can address social, economic, and environmental challenges head-on.

Get ready to embark on a journey that explores the power of design in creating positive change, as we uncover the incredible potential of women-centric design and its connection to the UN SDGs. It's time to reshape the future, one design at a time.

Sources from the episode:

Book "⁠Invisible Women⁠" by Caroline Criado Perez

Book "⁠Mother of Invention⁠" by Katrine Marcal

Connect with our guest or us:

Mansis Channels:

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mansigupta/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/unconform-studio/

Unconform Studio Website

https://www.unconformstudio.com/

Unconforming Newsletter

https://www.unconformstudio.com/sign-up

Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

Did you know what the ending of a customer relationship has to do with Sustainability? No? Well, than this episode is perfect for you:

We had a very special and inspiring guest. The worlds first Endineer (yes, Endineer) Joe Macleod. Joe wrote two books about this topic and with his company AndEnd he works on how we design better endings of customer relationships.

We spoke about the importance of better endings of the customer relationship and its strong relation to sustainability.

It became a very deep and inspiring conversation, about endineering and sustainability and Joes personal way into the whole topic. If you want to learn how to become an Endineer and why you should become one to design more sustainability products, you should not miss this new episode of the SUX podcast. 

In case you like what you hear, feel free to subscribe, follow and like our podcast. And if you haven't already done so, we invite you to join the SUX network as well.

Connect with our guest or us:

Joes Channels:

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephmacleod/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/andend/

AndEnd Website

http://www.andend.co/

Twitter

@mrmacleod 

@andend_co

Instagram

@mrmacleod

@andend.co

Hash tags.

#Endineering

#DesignEnds

Sources from the episode:

Endineering cohort course 7. Starts Sept 12th.

https://learn.endineering.co/courses/Endineering-course-cohort-7-Starts-Sept-12th

A 25% off discount code for SUX audience.

CODE: 25offendscohort

More about the Endineering Cohort

https://www.andend.co/cohort

Endings For Businesses

https://www.andend.co/starting-your-end

Links to the books:

The Endineering book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9163947846/

Ends book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9163936445/

Links to E-Books. with 25% off:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/744267

Discount code: HA44R

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1116883

Discount code: GB56T

Our Channels:

Bavo's ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ 

Thorsten's ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 

Isabel's ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 

SUX ⁠⁠Slack Community⁠⁠ 

SUX ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 

SUX ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠

Email us at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

We are back, after being a little quite for some time. Thorsten has been sick for a while, Bavo has been sick for a while and project-work kicked in as well. Sometimes being sustainable means also to be sustainable to yourself. You can only spend the time you have and sometimes there is not enough time for everything you want to do. So we had to postpone the start of the 2023 season for some weeks.

But her we are to kickoff 2023. And while we already do the first recordings with some wonderful new guests, we wanted to publish this intermezzo and talk a little bit about what is going on in the SUX Network as well as giving you some sneak peak about the upcoming guests.

So, have fun with with this little intermezzo and stay tuned for the next episode.

Connect with us or join the SUX Network:

Bavo's Linkedin

Thorsten's LinkedIn

Isabel's LinkedIn

SUX Slack Community

SUX LinkedIn

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

For this episode we had the honor to welcome one of the icons of the ethical design movement: the inspiring Trine Falbe from Denmark, well known for her ongoing work for ethical design, for her books „White hat UX“ as well as „The Ethical Design Handbook“ and for her Ethical Design Network Community.

We talked about Trines way and why Ethical Design and Sustainability directly belong together. We dived deeper into the necessity of Ethical Design, its principles and how YOU can achieve ethical design in your daily work.

We touched so many interesting and so so important topics, that we we forgot a little bit about the time. So, it became a quite long episode and we might jump a little bit back and forth in topics. But every minute is worth to hear - we promise.

In case you like what you hear, feel free to subscribe, follow and like our podcast. And if you haven't already done so, we invite you to join the SUX network as well.

Connect with our guest or us:

Trine’s LinkedIn

Bavo's Linkedin

Thorsten's LinkedIn

Isabel's LinkedIn

SUX Slack Community

SUX LinkedIn

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

Sources from the episode:

Trines Website

Trines Ethical Design Masterclass

Community: Ethical Design Network

Trines Book: Ethical Design Handbook

Trines Book: White Hat UX

The Pre:Sprint

Trines Startup simpleUX

Conference JSHeros 2023

Together with Tim Frick, one of the icons of digital design sustainability, we talk about the beginnings of Sustainable UX, where we are today and where the future could take us.

Tim tells us where his passion for sustainable design comes from. We discuss the importance of impact measurement and what he would change if he could write his book "Designing for Sustainability" again today.

He also shares his years of experience with his BCorp certified agency, Mighty Bites, on how to win over clients and how YOU can make a difference, whether you are a junior or a senior.

Feel free to subscribe, follow and like our podcast. And if you haven't already done so, we invite you to join the SUX network.

Connect with our guest or us:

Tim's LinkedIn
Bavo's Linkedin
Thorsten's LinkedIn
Isabel's LinkedIn
SUX Slack Community
SUX LinkedIn
SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

Sources from the episode:

W3C Community Group for Sustainable Web Design “sustyweb”
Tim's book "Designing for Sustainability"
Tim's agency Mightybites
Mightybites Blog
The 2022 Web Almanac’s chapter on Sustainability by HTTP Archive
Leah Thomas’ book “the Intersectional Environmentalist”

Welcome to the SUX podcast! 

Strap in for a wild ride of insights and mind-blown experiences as we hear from people passionate about sustainable UX and how they make impact. We’ll dive in with experts and discover along with people just breaking into the field. 

Thank you for being here with us as we make this a podcast by and for the sustainable UX community.

Bavo & Thorsten

You most probably know our guest already. This time we had the honor to be joined by Don Norman, author of "Design of everyday things" or "Design for a better world" , Co-Founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, University Professor and so much more for many of us.

We spoke about morning walks, elaborated on Humanity Centered Design and why Dons latest book was a different one, when he started writing it. We discussed about the importance of curiosity and made the connection between design, business and decision making and how it relates to sustainability. We spoke about sustainability and why it can only be the beginning and why it is good to be wrong sometimes. And we discussed how human centered design is wrong and why and how it needs to be enhanced and changed.

So, if you want to learn more about Humanity Centered Design and what is wrong with Human Centered Design, about how Don writes his books, but also about how to stay curious and not get older, even when you are 88, join us for this episode of the SUX podcast.

Connect with our guest or us:

Don’s Channels:

Don Norman Design Award and Summit: https://donnormanaward.design/

Don’s Book “Design for a better world”:  https://jnd.org/books/design-for-a-better-world/

Don’s Website: https://jnd.org/

Don’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnorman/ 

Sources from the episode:

Book “Lean Impact” by Ann Mei Chang: https://www.annmei.com/

Book “Design for the real world” by Vicgor Papanek: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190560.Design_for_the_Real_World

SUX Academy:

Waitlist for the upcoming Course “Become a Sustainable UX Designer”:  https://sustainableuxnetwork.com/#courses

And for information and curriculum options about the Sustainable UX Masterclass for design and product-teams get in touch with Thorsten: [email protected]

Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

You probably have heard of life-centered design or non-human personas. But, have you applied it to your work already? 

For this episode we were joined by Damien Lutz from Sydney, Australia, one of the most prominent voices and drivers of life-centered design as well as the author of the “Life-centered design guide” and the “Non-human persona guide”. 

We discussed the problems of nowadays design, how we need to change the way we design from being destructive to being sustainable and regenerative. We spoke about non-human personas and if apples mother nature video is a good thing or not.

So, if you want to hear more about life-centered design, non-human personas and how to apply it. And if you want to learn about Damiens journey into the world of life-centered design, join us for this episode of the SUX Podcast.

Connect with our guest or us:

Damien’s Channels:

Damiens Websites:

https://lifecentred.design/

https://futurescouting.com.au/

Damiens Book “Life-centred Design Guide”: https://lifecentred.design/the-life-centred-design-guide/

Damiens Book “The non-human persona guide”: https://lifecentred.design/non-human-personas/the-non-human-persona-guide/

Damiens Book “Future Scouting”: https://futurescouting.com.au/design-guide-book/

Damien’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damien-lutz-36230515/

Sources from the episode:

Book „Super Nature“ by Lyall Watson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525843.Supernature 

https://ecograder.com/ 

https://sustainablewebdesign.org

Articles by Monica Sznel: https://medium.com/@unpacking.design

Book “Design for the real world” by Victor Papanek:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190560.Design_for_the_Real_World

Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at [email protected] to share your feedback or suggest future guests.