Learn practical strategies for designing apps and websites that are better for people, business, and planet
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Original price was: $299.00.$250.00Current price is: $250.00.
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Why Sustainable UX matters
The internet causes more carbon emissions than the airline industry—and it’s growing fast. Every image, animation, and interaction adds to that footprint, and most of it comes down to design decisions.
The bonus news: the same choices that cut your product’s carbon footprint also tend to make it faster, more accessible, and more future-proof.
Design digital products better for people, business & planet
This course expands on the UX skills you already have — adding the judgement to make design decisions that meaningfully reduce a digital product’s carbon footprint, without sacrificing quality, creativity, or performance.
Most importantly, you’ll walk away with practical strategies you can apply immediately, regardless of your level of influence or technical experience.
Learn the power in the levers you already use
This course expands on the UX skills you already have — adding the judgement to make design decisions that meaningfully reduce a digital product’s carbon footprint, without sacrificing quality, creativity, or performance.
You’ll learn to measure impact with easy-to-use carbon calculators, then you’ll learn where designers have the most control and the greatest ability to reduce energy use and carbon output—interaction design, content design, UI decisions, click-path shaping, and emails and communications.
What's inside the course
A pragmatic approach for real work
Sustainable UX doesn’t require overhauling your process or winning over a room full of sceptics before you can start.
This course gives you strategies for every level of influence — from decisions you can make on your own to ideas worth bringing to your team or leadership.
And support broader planetary initiatives
Sustainable UX doesn’t just support users—it supports the wider systems your organisation is part of.
Lowering energy demand contributes directly to Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG), organisational carbon-reduction commitments, and broader planetary frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Who this course is for
This course is for designers and innovators who want a pragmatic, practical approach to Sustainable UX that they can start implemting straight away—one flexible enough to fit real project constraints, not an idealised process that falls apart under deadlines, client pushback, or competing priorities.
This course is for designers and innovators of all experience levels who want to reduce the planetary impact of their work with the power they have.
And you don’t need technical expertise or organisational influence to start—whatever your experience or level of influence, you’ll learn how to reduce the planetary impact of your work in a way that bends to fit your role and each project.
Meet your teacher
Damien Lutz
- Founder of the Life-centred Design Lab
- Senior UX Designer
- Teacher
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 juniors to seniors and leads.
The time it takes to complete this course 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.
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