Sustainable UX Designer Plus Course
$999.00
Design planet-friendlier websites that shine
Evolve your human-centred UX to less energy and produce less carbon, while also being more inclusive, privacy-focused, and enabling planet-friendlier user behaviours—better for people and planet.
Course includes:
- 280+ practical strategies you can apply now
- 140+ Real World examples, plus mock-ups
- 140+ Real World examples, plus mock-ups
- 80+ Recommended Tools to bookmark
- 34 Lessons, including 21 Activity Lessons
- Certificate on submission
- 12 Month Access
- PLUS:
- 1 x Private Coaching Call with Damien
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Description
Design planet-friendlier websites that shine
Evolve your human-centred UX to use less energy and produce less carbon, while also being more inclusive, privacy-focused, and enabling planet-friendlier user behaviours—better for people and planet.
Who this course is for:
- UX/UI Designers—You have more power than you realise—design to reduce energy use and digital waste while still delighting users and achieving business goals.
- Content Designers—Optimise words, images, and assets to tell richer stories while cutting file size, energy use, and digital waste.
- Design Leads—Lead teams to design sustainably and responsibly alongside achieving business goals, metrics, and growth.
- Curious Developers—Support planet-friendly design with leaner code and smarter systems, expanding your skills while backing sustainable UX.
Who the Plus pack is for:
The Plus pack is made for those who want a little guidance. It’s a great fit if you’re a:
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UX or UI designer who wants practical feedback while experimenting with sustainable design.
- Design team leader looking to expertly guide your team toward planet-friendlier practices.
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Curious developer or content designer who wants to broaden your design lens and sharpen collaboration.
The Plus Pack bonuses:
On top of everything in the core course, Plus students unlock a powerful extra:
A 1:1 Private Coaching Call
- Get personalised guidance, real feedback, and direct answers to your questions.
- Walk away with clarity, fresh ideas, and practical next steps.
Course Duration:
The time this course takes to complete depends on how you wish to learn and how long you choose to spend on each stage:
- Redesign an existing project
- Design a New Website or Experience
- Go straight to the high-impact wins—start learning the basics, which you can apply to almost any digital experience
- Follow your curiosity—Jump into the section that excites you most
Course Outline:
| INTRODUCTION | |
|---|---|
| 1. About Sustainable UX | You’ll learn what sustainable UX really means, why it matters, and how it merges lightweight design, accessibility, diversity, and ethics to empower experience-level designers to have a meaningful impact upon both people and the planet. |
| RESEARCH | |
| 2. Research For People & Planet | Learn how to research with sustainability, ethics, and inclusion at the core to audit impact and gather data for people and planet, and give voice to the potential effects on environments and unseen communities. |
| DESIGN | |
| 3. Wireframe Mobile-first | Learn how mobile-first design creates simpler, faster experiences that reach more users on any device while reducing energy use and digital waste. |
| 4. Design For LIFE | Cut carbon, not creativity. Design fast, lean, accessible, and respectful experiences that include more people and respect autonomy, consent, and attention. |
| 5. Enable Planet-Friendlier Behaviours | Use behavioural design for good to help people make sustainable, healthy choices without manipulation. |
| 6. Temper E-commerce & Overconsumption | Design shopping experiences that slow the scroll, inform better decisions, and support responsible ownership after purchase. |
| 7. Empower with Adaptable Modes | Give users flexible ways to interact—whether they need low-data browsing, focused work modes, or ways to express diversity. |
| 8. Communicate Your Story | Bring the organisation’s sustainability story to life—both in a central hub and woven naturally into the user journey. |
| TEST | |
| 9. Test For People & Planet | Prototype testing isn’t just about spotting usability issues—it’s a chance to reduce waste and champion accessibility, diversity, and ethics. |
| HANDOVER | |
| 10. Handover To Reduce and Inspire | Make your handover part of the impact. Pass on designs with performance, storage, and data efficiency in mind—and help developers understand why it matters. |
| MONITOR | |
| 11. Monitor For People & Planet | Your design’s life doesn’t end at launch. Learn how to track and measure its real-world impact, then iterate toward even better results for people and planet. |
| ADVOCATE | |
| 12. Advocate for Planet-friendlier Digital Systems | Designers can lead change. You’ll explore how to champion low-impact, ethical systems in your team and beyond—through collaboration, workshops, and everyday conversations. |
| INTRODUCTION |
|---|
| 1. About Sustainable UX |
| You’ll learn what sustainable UX really means, why it matters, and how it merges lightweight design, accessibility, diversity, and ethics to empower experience-level designers to have a meaningful impact upon both people and the planet. |
| RESEARCH |
| 2. Research For People & Planet |
| Learn how to research with sustainability, ethics, and inclusion at the core to audit impact and gather data for people and planet, and give voice to the potential effects on environments and unseen communities. |
| DESIGN |
| 3. Wireframe Mobile-first |
| Learn how mobile-first design creates simpler, faster experiences that reach more users on any device while reducing energy use and digital waste. |
| 4. Design UX For LIFE |
| Cut carbon, not creativity. Design fast, lean, accessible, and respectful experiences that include more people and respect autonomy, consent, and attention. |
| 5. Enable Planet-Friendlier Behaviours |
| Use behavioural design for good to help people make sustainable, healthy choices without manipulation. |
| 6. Temper E-commerce & Overconsumption |
| Design shopping experiences that slow the scroll, inform better decisions, and support responsible ownership after purchase. |
| 7. Empower with Adaptable Modes |
| Give users flexible ways to interact—whether they need low-data browsing, focused work modes, or ways to express diversity. |
| 8. Communicate Your Story |
| Bring the organisation’s sustainability story to life—both in a central hub and woven naturally into the user journey. |
| TEST |
| 9. Test For People & Planet |
| Prototype testing isn’t just about spotting usability issues—it’s a chance to reduce waste and champion accessibility, diversity, and ethics. |
| HANDOVER |
| 10. Handover To Reduce and Inspire |
| Make your handover part of the impact. Pass on designs with performance, storage, and data efficiency in mind—and help developers understand why it matters. |
| MONITOR |
| 11. Monitor For People & Planet |
| Your design’s life doesn’t end at launch. Learn how to track and measure its real-world impact, then iterate toward even better results for people and planet. |
| ADVOCATE |
| 12. Advocate for Planet-friendlier Digital Systems |
| Designers can lead change. You’ll explore how to champion low-impact, ethical systems in your team and beyond—through collaboration, workshops, and everyday conversations. |


