Learn practical strategies for reducing the carbon footprint of digital products, amplifying inclusivity and equity, and fostering planet-friendlier e-commerce—without compromising business or user needs
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About the course
Course details
Design planet-friendlier websites that shine
Sustainable UX is a set of skills, strategies, and tools to add to your existing UX knowledge — no matter your level of experience. And because this is a developing field, there’s huge scope for creative experimentation and innovation.
This approach combines the best of sustainable web design, accessibility, diversity-driven design, ethical behavioural design, and mobile-first thinking into one adaptable framework. You’ll learn when and how to use the right mix at each stage of the design process, research and design to testing, handover, and post-launch monitoring.
UX Levers for LIFE
At the core of this program are the UX Levers for LIFE: six design areas you can optimise in every digital project—Content, Third Party Embeds, Data, Styling, Click Paths, and Emails & Communications.
LIFE represents the design goals you aim for in these areas:
- Low-Carbon—Lower Carbon
- Inclusive—Wider Access
- Fair—Greater Equity
- Ethical—Stronger Trust
Learn how to achieve these LIFE goals across the six core areas of any digital project.
Convince clients, influence teams
Advocate for sustainable UX and influence decision-making.
From balancing sustainability with business needs, to clearly articulating its benefits, to confidently championing planet-friendlier practices with clients and teams—you’ll gain the skills to turn good intentions into real change, build credibility, win buy-in, and make sustainability part of how digital products succeed.
Support business and planetary initiatives
With Sustainable UX connecting designers’ everyday work to bigger planetary goals, the benefits ripple outward—from your own design craft, to your team, to your organisation, and ultimately to the planet.
Who this course is for
Designers of all experience levels who want to make more positive planetary impact with the power they have
Meet your teacher…
Damien Lutz
Founder of the Life-centred Design Lab
Author of The Life-Centred Design Guide, The Non-human Persona Guide, and Future Scouting
With over a decade in UX/UI Design and Research, Damien has taught UX to new designers in Australia and life-centred design to students and innovators in Europe and Australia. He has also written three design guides and produced two online hubs with toolkits and courses to empower sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, and future-thinking design and business.
Join Damien to learn new ways to design a thriving existence for all life.
FAQs
This course is primarily for digital designers and leads—including UX, UI, and content designers, of any experience level—who want to learn about the power their work has to do less harm and more good for the planet and society, and to implement it efficiently.
This course is also for developers curious about design and how they can support sustainable design, while also growing their own design skills.
The course is suitable for digital designers and innovators of any experience level, from students and juniors to seniors and leads.
The time this course takes to complete depends on how you wish to learn—see “How will I Learn?”
You can access the course material for the period stated in the “Course Details” panel, from your purchase date, while the product is online and supported. When this period ends, access ends unless otherwise stated.
Why not lifetime access?
- Learning works best when it gets finished
- Instead of lifetime access that turns valuable courses into a to-do list that often never gets started, a defined access period gives you the motivation and flexibility to learn at your own pace, revisit key ideas, apply them in real projects, and get real value by actually upskilling rather than collecting content.
- Do you really want ‘lifetime’ access, or do you need an experience that helps you focus, learn, and gain real skills while the content is at its most current and useful?
- Tech and the world are changing fast
- Design, sustainability, technology, platforms, partnerships, and business models change over time, so a defined access period lets us keep content relevant, update or retire material responsibly, and be clear about what we can realistically support.
- Keeping outdated courses online “for life” adds to digital clutter and waste, increasing storage, energy use, carbon emissions, and water consumption in data centres for content that may no longer be relevant or valuable.
The course is structured for learning sustainable design strategies from the start of a design project to the end, so that you may apply the learnings to any project.
However, how you learn is up to you, for example, you can use the course modules to:
- 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
No matter which path you take, you’ll be building the skills and confidence to design experiences that not only work better for people, but also support the planet.
Yes! The course is completely online at at your own pace from any time zone.
To ensure the integrity of this course, certificates are only given to those who complete a design project and submit their work for review.
Send an email to in**@*********ed.design to learn more.
The course instructor is the Sydney-based designer, researcher, and writer, Damien Lutz, founder of lifecentred.design and futurescouting.com.au, and author The Life-centred Design Guide, The Non-human Persona Guide, and Future Scouting.
Damien created the first framework for life-centred design and published the first guide on life-centred and non-human persona design based on project work, interviews with other practitioners and experts, and research.
Yes, we also offer customised training for creating and using non-human personas as in-house training. Contact us for more details at in**@*********ed.design.
Yes! Life-centred Design Lab & Academy are committed to providing equitable access.
- Student Discounts
- Discounts are also available for designers in financial hardship or from economies incompatible with Australia—Equity Discounts
