Low-Carbon UX Design Course
$399.00
Learn practical methods to reduce energy use, cut carbon emissions, and create faster, cleaner, planet-positive websites and apps.
Course includes:
- 30 Lessons
- 120+ Practical strategies you can apply now
- 80+ Recommended Tools to bookmark
- Real World examples plus mock-ups
- 12 Month Access
- Certificate
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Description
Learn Low-Carbon UX to make the web faster, cleaner, and better for the planet.
Whether you’re designing websites, apps, intranets, SaaS platforms, or any other digital product, this course shows you what Low-Carbon UX really means, why it matters, and how to start applying it the moment you move from research into solution design.
You’ll learn to work with the key UX levers for lowering carbon—wireframing, interaction design, content design, click-path shaping, and UI decisions—where designers have the most control and the greatest ability to reduce energy use.
Learnings and outcomes
At your own pace, you’ll learn:
- How to design mobile-first journeys that naturally lower energy use.
- Practical ways to reduce the carbon output of content such as images, video, copy, and documents.
- How to assess and slim down functional components, third-party tools, and AI features.
- Strategies to minimise data use, storage, and heavy interactions.
- How to choose lighter styling, colours, and fonts to support performance and accessibility.
- Techniques for creating shorter, clearer click paths that reduce page loads.
- How to design lower-carbon emails and communications.
- How to use carbon calculators to measure, benchmark, and find optimisation opportunities.
- How to use AI intentionally in your workflow to save time and avoid unnecessary compute.
Who this course is for
This course is for:
- UX and UI designers who want to reduce energy use and digital waste while improving performance.
- Content designers who want to create clearer, lighter content and optimise media for lower carbon impact.
- Design leads who want to embed sustainable, low-carbon practices into team workflows.
- Curious developers who want to understand the design decisions that shape energy use so they can better support low-carbon outcomes.
Course outline
| INTRODUCTION | |
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| 1. Welcome to the course A warm welcome to the course, what to expect, and how can use the course to learn in the way that suits you. |
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| 2. About Low-Carbon UX You’ll learn what Low-Carbon UX is, why it matters, and how it empowers experience-level designers to have a meaningful impact on carbon reduction. |
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| LOW-CARBON UX STRATEGIES | |
| 3. Web-Carbon Calculators
Use web-carbon calculators to audit your pages, set a baseline, uncover optimisation opportunities, and demonstrate the value of low-carbon UX to stakeholders. |
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| 4. Low-Carbon Content
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising your content. |
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| 5. Low-Carbon Functional, AI & Data
Low-carbon UX strategies for:
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| 6. Low-Carbon Styling
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising your content and page styling, including animation. |
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| 7. Low-Carbon Click Paths
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising user journeys and page loads. |
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| 8. Low-Carbon Emails & Communications
Low-carbon UX strategies for emails, newsletters, and communications. |
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| WRAP UP | |
| 9. Balancing Sustainability with Experience & Business
A guide to being a pragmatic Low-Carbon UX designer, to ensure sustainability, business, and user needs are balanced. |
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| 10. Celebrate! Reflect on what matters, and celebrate your efforts in completing the course. |
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| INTRODUCTION | |
|---|---|
| 1. Welcome to the course A warm welcome to the course, what to expect, and how can use the course to learn in the way that suits you.
|
|
| 2. About Low-Carbon UX You’ll learn what Low-Carbon UX is, why it matters, and how it empowers experience-level designers to have a meaningful impact on carbon reduction.
|
|
| LOW-CARBON UX STRATEGIES | |
| 3. Web-Carbon Calculators
Use web-carbon calculators to audit your pages, set a baseline, uncover optimisation opportunities, and demonstrate the value of low-carbon UX to stakeholders
|
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| 4. Low-Carbon Content
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising your content.
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| 5. Low-Carbon Functional, AI & Data
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising functional and AI-powered components—like maps, product recommendations, search, and chatbots—and efficient data use and storage
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| 6. Low-Carbon Styling
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising your content and page styling, including animation.
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| 7. Low-Carbon Click Paths
Low-carbon UX strategies for optimising user journeys and page loads.
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| 8. Low-Carbon Emails & Communications
Low-carbon UX strategies for emails, newsletters, and communications.
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| WRAP UP | |
| 9. Balancing Sustainability with Experience & Business
A guide to being a pragmatic Low-Carbon UX designer, to ensure sustainability, business, and user needs are balanced.
|
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| 10. Celebrate! Reflect on what matters, and celebrate your efforts in completing the course.
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