Interaction 21- Carbon-conscious design: the impact of UX practices on energy efficiency and carbon footprint

3 min readJan 30, 2021

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Articles from International Energy Agency

Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks - Analysis - IEA

In this report Global internet traffic surged by almost 40% between February and mid-April 2020, driven by growth in…

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Data centres & networks - Fuels & Technologies - IEA

Key findings Open expand Huge strides in energy efficiency have helped to limit electricity demand growth from data…

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The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines - Analysis - IEA

A version of this commentary was originally published in Carbon Brief. Even before millions were confined to their…

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Covid-19 impact on electricity - Analysis - IEA

In light of the extraordinary impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown measures on the energy system, the…

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Frameworks, principles and tools for designers

IBM Design

At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work. Our human-centered design…

www.ibm.com

Website Carbon Calculator | How is your website impacting the planet?

Skip to content Estimate your web page carbon footprint: The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year…

www.websitecarbon.com

Fundamental Concepts

There's no single solution for conserving energy on a device. Numerous technologies and operations influence how energy…

developer.apple.com

https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/power

Opower UX

Hey, we're the user experience team at Opower. Our design challenge: to motivate everyone, everywhere, to use less…

ux.opower.com

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233620661_Design_for_Sustainable_Behaviour_Using_Products_to_Change_Consumer_Behaviour

Making web applications more energy efficient for OLED smartphones

A smartphone's display is one of its most energy consuming components. Modern smartphones use OLED displays that…

dl.acm.org

Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design Decisions on the…

Interactive devices and the services they support are reliant on the cloud and the digital infrastructure supporting…

dl.acm.org

Engineering-centric resources

Driving user growth with performance improvements

Sam Meder, Vadim Antonov & Jeff Chang | Pinterest engineers, Growth

medium.com

Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering * Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering

Sustainable Software Engineering is an emerging discipline at the intersection of climate science, software practices…

principles.green

Timeline of progress towards a more sustainable web - Susty WP

In 2006, The Green Web Foundation began a database of web hosting companies who were using renewable energy to power…

sustywp.com

Is PUE actually going UP? - Uptime Institute Blog

One of the more intriguing results of the Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2019 concerned energy efficiency…

journal.uptimeinstitute.com

Lazy loading

Lazy loading is a strategy to identify resources as non-blocking (non-critical) and load these only when needed. It's a…

developer.mozilla.org

State of the Web

The number of URLs analyzed in this report. Show Table The sum of transfer size kilobytes of all resources requested by…

httparchive.org

Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Computers account for a staggering number of electronic devices currently used around the globe. Whether in the…

www.climatesaverscomputing.org

How to choose a green web host

In our mission to help create a sustainable web, we encourage our clients to move their websites to green hosting…

www.wholegraindigital.com

More resources and articles

https://blog.ucsusa.org/peter-oconnor/energy-efficiency-part-1-whats-the-point-933?

What is the Rebound Effect? - Energy Efficiency, Part 2

In my previous post, I noted that energy efficiency by itself does not necessarily reduce emissions, but it does give…

blog.ucsusa.org

Quantification of energy and carbon costs for mining cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency mining requires extensive energy consumption for computers to verify the blockchain and generate new…

www.nature.com

Carbon and the Cloud

Hard facts about data storage.

medium.com

How liking something on Facebook can damage the planet

The amount of energy consumed by the world's data centres - the repositories for billions of gigabytes of information …

www.independent.co.uk

A Growing Digital Waste Cloud - Our World

While the ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano expanded for a relatively short time over Europe and then…

ourworld.unu.edu

Sanchit Soni

Written by Sanchit Soni

Sr. Product Designer at Intuit

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