Web fonts have expanded the designer’s palette and often provide a richer experience for users, but how can we make them more sustainable

As part of the 2021 Design Economy we developed a framework for designers and commissioners to identify and assess the wider social, environmental and democratic impacts of their work.

The Impact Canvas forces users to look at the positive as well as the negative impacts of your product or business idea, therefore generating the first input for a realistic impact assessment. It is structured along three levels, which take into account all potential impact categories.

A learning and organizing tool for the circular economy. For sustainability managers, entrepreneurs and designers. Helps with innovation and design of business models and services for a circular economy. It contains product design, business model, and ecosystem principles. Also useful for product-as

Find a selection of case studies in circular design for architecture, fashion, consumer electronics, product, service, mobility and many more

After joining the Organizing for Degrowth Network (ODN), a collective aiming to help unite the global degrowth movement into a coherent structure, I decided to see how many degrowth-related groups…

It's time for designers to pave the way for ethical decision-making in tech. Bring this framework and toolkit back to your product team.

Tech is always political. The way data is collected and handled is often biased, and many products are neither accessible nor inclusive. Ethical Design Guide is made to share resources on how to create ethical products that don't cause harm.

Insights from interviews and experimentation from designers around the world are synthesised into practical steps for applying non-human…

Bring sustainability into your journey maps. Sustainability infused User Journey Maps depict an entire process that a hypothetical user can go through AND look at the ecological and social impact of each step. This method helps to see the gaps in the user journey and offers a space to think abou...

Interviews with practitioners show how digital designers can use non-human personas to design more planet-friendly experiences

Call it the ultimate impact scorecard. This marks the 2021 edition of the global listing of the world's most influential companies and funds ranked by their net impact.

Circular Experience Design (cirx) makes the customer experience in the circular economy joyful and effortless. Circular-experience.org is dedicated to develop and share methods for a better customer experience in the circular economy.

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable. Following these guidelines which utilize environment, social, and governance (ESG) principles throughout the decision-making processes, you can minimize your environmental impact through a mixture of user-centered design, performant web development, renewable infrastructure, sustainable business strategy, and (with metrics) various combinations of those mentioned. It should be noted that these guidelines will not address every possible mechanism or strategy to become sustainable, as such, these guidelines (which are notably Web orientated and focused) should be seen as a starting point in a sustainability journey (coverage does not extend for example to manufacturing or shipping of physical products). Following these guidelines will often make Web content more accessible, usable, and performant as a by-product.