Get started with life-centred design
7 practical ways to get started with life-centred design
I want to life-centre...
Physical things
- Explore the impact of a physical thing—Use Monika Sznel’s Actant map to brainstorm the environmental and social impacts of product, object, business, etc.
- See things from a different perspective—Once you have identified an environment, animal, or invisible human most impacted, explore their needs by creating a simple non-human/non-user persona
- Innovate design solutions—Use circular design strategies to reduce harm, such as those from The Circular Design Guide
I want to life-centre...
Digital Experiences
- Benchmark the impact of a website using Ecograder’s assessment tool—it’s super easy and the result gives you lots of ideas to improve
- Use the ideas from Step 1, and look at sustainablewebdesign.org, to start brainstorming improvements
- Use behavioural design to enable and encourage sustainable user behaviour
- Switch to Green Web Hosting (After my own analysis, I chose Green Geeks (Affiliate link) ↗)
- Embed basic accessibility in your work, it’s easy and after learning a little it becomes second nature—and makes a world of difference for people with different abilities
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