Frequent renewal of digital devices accounts for a large share of their environmental impact because of fabrication environmental costs. This renewal is often attributed to sociocultural phenomena (e.g. presentation of self or persuasive marketing) and to broken hardware (e.g. shattered screens or degraded batteries). We investigate a complementary aspect: how people live with devices as they are gradually becoming obsolete. We present a qualitative interview-based study with 18 participants on the role of software factors on the feeling of smartphone obsolescence. We identify three types of factors pushing for device renewal: upgrade issues, storage issues, and malfunctions. We find that these issues accumulate over time until a threshold is passed leading to renewal: we define this process as an obsolescence path. This threshold is often tied to contextual and social concerns. We also outline the various strategies people use to prolong the life of the almost obsolete devices. Our results show that hardware and software obsolescence are tied, and should be considered together as they trace obsolescence paths. Based on these observations, we identify design opportunities to extend the lifespan of devices.

Questions and Answers: EU action plan on digitalising the energy system

Not many people remember this 2005 documentary featured early interviews with Paul Graham, Aaron Swartz, Alexis Ohanian, and Steve Huffman.

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Data For Good - Les grands défis de l'IA générative, Author: Data for Good, Length: 112 pages, Page: 1, Published: 2023-07-20

Dans le cadre de sa transition écologique, le Groupe Orange a fait appel à l’expertise d’Orange Business en matière d’écoconception pour le digital.

I created The Monster List of UX Books by compiling every list of recommended UX books I could find and then tallying the number of recommendations for each...

This booklet is a complement to the 3 booklets of good practices related to software development proposed by the network of actors of software development within the french Education and Research: DevLOG. This project is dedicated to good practices in terms of eco-design of digital services that allow to apprehend, understand and reduce the environmental impact of digital technology. macro After explaining the general context in the first sheet, a second sheet ("But Why?") highlights the need to integrate an environmental dimension into our digital service designs, and consequently into our software developments. The third sheet ("When?") reminds us of the stages in the life cycle of a digital service and introduces the good practice sheets that correspond to the different stages: "Before", "During" and "After", bearing in mind that development is often iterative, and the boundaries between the different stages are permeable. At the end of the booklet, you will find a specific sheet on eco-design practices for scientific computing, as well as sheets on development on mobile platforms, for the web and on hardware accelerators.

The objective of this document is to provide criteria for assessing the environmental impacts of responses to calls for projects involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. When proposing these criteria, we take into account, in addition to the general impacts of digital services, the specificities of the AI field and in particular of machine learning: impacts of the learning and inference phases, data collection...

Privacy design patterns for software engineering

UX Knowledge Base Sketch #64

Browse examples of deceptive patterns used by companies to mislead, trick and trap users.

Outlines the current principles and work needed to improve the accessibility of the GOV.UK Design System

Historically, bank cards were relatively simple rectangles of plastic—but not anymore. Here's how this new feature complexity has been tackled.

1. Introduction Ten years ago, together with Erol Gelenbe , we wrote a NATF report on the impact of ICT (Information & Communication...

Quelle police de caractère doit être utilisée pour réaliser de potentielles économies budgétaires, tout en respectant l’environnement ? #écologique

This self-paced course aims to support national stakeholders in developing national Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) policy and regulation. In addition to an introduction and overview, the course consists of the following four modules: 1) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), 2) Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), 3) Financial Management, and 4) Government Stakeholder Groups and Interests.

Learn how web performance impacts your bottom line.

Pour les spécialistes de la conception numérique qui souhaitent apporter de l'inclusivité et de la mixité dans leurs projets.

Developers often feel discouraged from editing SVG markup and experimenting with SVG animations, thinking it’s a significant time investment or they need to use a complex animation library to do so. In this article, Adrian showcases his favorite tricks, which make the process streamlined and fun.

LG et Whirlpool, fabricant d'appareils électroménagers, vont devoir redoubler d'efforts s'ils souhaitent vendre leurs services.