Books

This is a website for a book I've written entitled, "What You Can Do to Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and Values" and for the non-profit organization, "Design a Better World", that promotes designs that make the world a better place.

Buy now Authors: Gerry McGovern Publisher: Silver Beach Publication Date: April, 2020About: Digital is physical. Digital is not green. Digital costs the Earth. Every time I download an email I contribute to global warming. Every time I tweet, do a search, check a webpage, I create pollution. Digital is physical. Those data centers are not in the...

The Non-Human Persona Guide is a synthesis of learnings from various designers from around the world on how to identify, create, and use non-human/non-user personas to represent their needs during design and at decision making.

A step-by-step to designing future inventions using Speculative Design to get you saving the world and back to the present well before the next pandemic. Includes downloadable and online resource access.

Non-human and non-user personas represent the animals, environments, and ‘invisible’ humans (factory workers, miners, farmers, and communities, etc.) impacted by our product lifecycle so that we may design to protect and respect them

A practical guide to ethical design for digital products. How to fight dark patterns and how to make products more honest without hurting the bottom line.

Published in 2020, Mau: MC24 offers 24 massive change (MC24) design principles to overhaul the way you think about your life and work. MC24 gives everyone — from global business leaders to the management of sports, arts and entertainment venues down to the individual — the tools for applying entrepreneurial design to the massive challenges […]

Make greener design choices for better experiences and a healthier planet.

How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social struc...

Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web … - Selection from Designing for Sustainability [Book]

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