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How to get started with life-centred design

7 practical ways to get started with life-centred design

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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	This site's hosting is green	Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid
	We're planting trees! The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted	To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org
	Page CO2 emissions Shown for high-traffic pages only	Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard
	Page accessibility rating Shown for high-traffic pages only	Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

	This site's hosting is green	Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid
	We're planting trees! The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted	To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org
	Page CO2 emissions Shown for high-traffic pages only	Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard
	Page accessibility rating Shown for high-traffic pages only	Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

	This site's hosting is green	Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid
	We're planting trees! The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted	To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org
	Page CO2 emissions Shown for high-traffic pages only	Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard
	Page accessibility rating Shown for high-traffic pages only	Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

How to get started with life-centred design

7 practical ways to get started with life-centred design

Get started with life-centred design

7 practical ways to get started with life-centred design

I want to life-centre...

Physical things

I want to life-centre...

Digital Experiences

Read more detail on how to get started on my blog

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Take the lead

#2 Amazon Best Seller in Engineering Design, Dec ’22

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