Sustainable design creates long-term solutions that ensure societal well-being and environmental harmony for future generations. Designers reduce waste through recyclable and reusable products. They also focus on reducing carbon emissions through sustainable manufacturing processes. The document discusses sustainability concepts, sustainable product design considerations like using recycled materials, and techniques for more sustainable web design like lazy loading content. It provides examples of sustainable products and lists strategies for living more sustainably.

1. Sustainable Design
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Do you Shower or use Bucket tumbler to bathe?
Do you use Plastic bags or Cloth bags for grocery shopping
Do you use plastic plates and water bottles during gatherings or recyclable alternatives?
Do you use your car when you travel alone or public transport?
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How environment friendly are you?

3. Table of Contents PART 1 Sustainability
PART 2 Sustainable Design
PART 3 UX & Sustainable design
PART 4 Ways to live sustainably
PART 5
PART 6
Ways to Design Sustainably
Quiz Time :))
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4. Sustainability refers to the ability to maintain or support a process
continuously over time.
In business and policy contexts, sustainability seeks to prevent the
depletion of natural or physical resources, so that they will remain
available for the long term.
Sustainability is often broken into three core concepts: economic,
environmental, and social
What is Sustainability?
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Sustainable design creates long-term solutions and helps
societies ensure the well-being of their people and harmony with
the environment for generations.
Designers reduce waste by making products that are recyclable,
compostable and even better - endlessly reusable
They might also create a manufacturing process to reduce or
remove carbon dioxide emissions. As the most significant
challenge of our age, many of these designs relate to
environmentalism or combatting climate change.
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A sustainably designed product or service is one that considers
the entire lifecycle of the product during development, from
manufacturing to disposal. A truly sustainable design is optimized
for reuse.
A physical product might use recycled materials, or be
manufactured in a plant that doesn’t use fossil fuels to become
more sustainable.
A sustainable service should provide what the user needs while
reducing the use of non-renewable resources.
What makes a product
sustainable?
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7. Pattal Jute bags Bamboo comb Coconut coir dish
scrub
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS
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8. UX & Sustainable design
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9. You can also use less energy in your website UX by lighting fewer
pixels on a user’s screen through dark mode.
Compressing and optimising dynamic content like video (large file
sizes require more energy for hosting and playback), and lazy
loading, which ensures non-critical content only loads when
people need it.
Not only does this help reduce carbon emissions, but it also makes
for a better user experience.
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Interpret Instagram posts using image recognition to generate text-based
representations.
User's feed displays text-based content instead of an algorithmically
ordered feed.
Users have the option to tap and view content they are interested in.
Users can view their energy/carbon meter depicted as a gradient bar on
top of the feed.
Initiate discussions within design and tech communities.
Explore alternative approaches to Instagram's algorithmic feed.
TOM JARRETT'S LOW ENERGY
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11. Challenge: Create web pages under 10 kilobytes in size.
Objectives:
Inspire designers and developers to create leaner and more efficient
websites.
Enable wider accessibility for users with slow internet connections or
limited data plans.
Promoting Sustainability
Reduced energy consumption
Reduced data usage
Improved performance
More inclusive
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12. Think twice before shopping.
Go #PlasticFree.
Boycott products that endanger wildlife.
Be water wise.
Drive less, drive green.
Choose Wild Energy.
Choose to have a smaller family.
Use your voice and your vote.
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13. 1. Suggest an eco-friendly foundation
2. Design for accessibility
3. Optimize copy and format
4. Use weightless content
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14. Be ready !

15. No safari on google will be allowed
Please turn on your camera's
You got 10 sec for each question

16. What is a key strategy
employed by designers
to reduce waste in
sustainable design?
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Repurposing
Recycling
Reusability
4 Reducing
packaging

17. What is a key strategy
employed by designers
to reduce waste in
sustainable design?
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Repurposing
Recycling
Reusability
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Reducing
packaging

18. What is a characteristic
of a sustainable product
design in terms of
material selection?
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Cost
effectiveness
Durability
Aesthetics
Using recycled or
responsibly sourced
materials
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19. What is a characteristic
of a sustainable product
design in terms of
material selection?
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Cost
effectiveness
Durability
Aesthetics
Using recycled or
responsibly sourced
materials

20. What is a technique used in
web design to reduce
energy consumption and
improve user experience by
loading content only when
needed?
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Progressive
loading
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Dynamic
loading
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Lazy
loading
4 Adaptive
loading

21. What is a technique used in
web design to reduce
energy consumption and
improve user experience by
loading content only when
needed?
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Progressive
loading
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Dynamic
loading
Lazy
loading
4 Adaptive
loading

22. What is a key goal of
sustainable design in
relation to natural or
physical resources?
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Maximizing
extraction
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Accelerating
depletion
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Minimizing
consumption
4 Preventing
depletion

23. What is a key goal of
sustainable design in
relation to natural or
physical resources?
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Maximizing
extraction
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Accelerating
depletion
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Minimizing
consumption
Preventing
depletion

24. Quiz on the
misconceptions
in UX.

25. Q1

26. The infinite scroll is not a benchmark in designing a good
browsing experience.
Even the inventor of this practice confirms this! The infinite
scroll allows the user to scroll the content of a
page...endlessly (as the name may suggest). But on the user
side, this can turn into a tedious experience and led to one
thing: your visitor cannot find the information he is looking
for.
NO, certainly not !

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28. Everything doesn't have to be necessarily accessible from
the Homepage
Confronted with certain situations, individuals shall
experience a significant "cognitive load". This means, the
amount of sensory information that they can process in a
given period of time is going to be surpassed. When too
stimulated, the user is going to end up in a stressful
situation which triggers thoughtless actions, unpredictable
behaviors…
False ...

29. Q3

30. The design should not be minimalist
"Simplicity" aims to "reduce complexity", "Minimalism" is
about "reducing the elements to the strict minimum". This
variation is important! Not taking this into account can lead
to many obstacles.
Because favouring minimalism for the sake of simplicity
often means running the risk of losing your user or not
being understood by them.
Nope !

31. AGREE
DISAGREE
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32. No, just because a user has more choices does not mean
they will be more satisfied
Giving choices to your users to give them some control is
relevant and wise. As long as this is done sparingly and
through common sense. Because giving many options
without prioritizing these will increase the user's "cognitive
load". You run the risk of paralyzing him in his decision-
making process and maybe even creating frustration.
Disagree !

33. Q5

34. The design should not be minimalist
In a page, blank spaces strengthen readability, help
prioritize your content and even play a role in your brand
positioning. As we saw before, everything is related to this
famous cognitive load. The presence of blank or empty
spaces helps us remain focused on precise information.
Blank spaces are not
wasted space !

35. Q6

36. You don't need an original design
Users have developed interaction habits during their various browsing
experiences. They refer to this as "affordance". Having accumulated
these experiences, they know how to carry out a process or which
button to click when on a new site or an unknown application, so they
don't need any instructions to do so! Hense the user is already
"educated".
Using originality means confusing representations, forcing the user to
think and often making him waste time in carrying out simple actions.
However, when they are on your site, your visitor doesn't have much
time to waste.
No !!

37. Q6

38. UX designer shouldn't make my website intuitive
One says that something is intuitive when it is understood
at once. UX design, on the other hand, focuses on the user
experience. One acquires this through practice ... So it's not
the same thing!
If UX Design is not an enemy of intuition, it isn't its first aim.
Our main goal is to guide users while they browse the
website, through pedagogy. Moreover, if its use is intuitive,
now that's the frosting on the cake!
Nope ... !