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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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

  1. 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
  2. Use the ideas from Step 1, and look at sustainablewebdesign.org↗, to start brainstorming improvements
  3. Use behavioural design↗ to enable and encourage sustainable user behaviour
  4. Switch to Green Web Hosting (After my own analysis, I chose Green Geeks (Affiliate link) ↗)
  5. 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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We replenish what we use

A percentage of profits from design guides by Damien Lutz are donated to onetreeplanted.org to replace the trees used to create the books

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Lifecentred.design aims to be low carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
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
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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

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Lifecentred.design aims to be low carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
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

More about our commitments

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Lifecentred.design aims to be low carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
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

More about our commitments

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I am the voice of the trees who were taken to make the product I speak from.

We, the trees, gave shade, clean air, homes for countless creatures, and the gift of oxygen for you to breathe. We cooled the earth, held the soil, and stored the carbon that would have otherwise harmed you.

Now, as a user of this product, you are part of this legacy, and a custodian of the things we once were. 

I ask you to honor the role we played for your planet. Where we are taken, help new trees rise, and protect those who still stand tall. Nurture them as they nurture you, for your future is rooted in our regeneration.

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