SUX – The Sustainable UX Playbook

The SUX goals

What
we
want

The SUX goals

What
we
want

We need to take action!

Designers are more powerful than ever.

But, how can we use this power? How can we drive sustainabilty and change in and with our daily work? Do we need a manifesto for a new way of working: for ourselves, for working with our teams and colleagues and for working with our clients? But what happens then? 1000 maybe 5000 designers from all over the world will sign it in the next months. All of us with the best ambitions.

Did you know?

If it would be a country, the web would be on track to become the fourth largest CO2 emitter on Earth.

Great, isn’t it? Maybe not.

Creating just another manifesto will not help. Honestly it sucks.

We all know this feeling of having the best ambitions, having the will to change things - and than getting stuck in our daily routines, lacking practical tools and methods to use in our daily work, to change habits and to drive change.

We think, we need to go beyond another manifesto. Instead, we need a practical and hands-on toolset, that we all can use in our daily work.

SUX like »what happened so far SUCKS, let’s do better«? Yes!

What is

Sustainable UX?

Responsible

SUX goes beyond the mantra of user-centered design. Instead it focuses on all actors affected by the products we build: Users, other people, society, nature or even the whole planet.

Comprehensive

SUX wants to target all aspects of Sustainability, which are defined perfectly in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN.

Holistic

SUX is about driving sustainability on all levels of UX and Design. From product design to strategy. From our own work, to our teams, managers and clients.

Collective

SUX has to be driven all together.
With the community, for the community and non-profit.

What is

Sustainable
UX?

SUX like »what happened so far SUCKS, let’s do better«? Yes!

Responsible

SUX goes beyond the mantra of user-centered design. Instead it focuses on all actors affected by the products we build: Users, other people, society, nature or even the whole planet.

Comprehensive

SUX wants to target all aspects of Sustainability, which are defined perfectly in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN.

Holistic

SUX is about driving sustainability on all levels of UX and Design. From product design to strategy. From our own work, to our teams, managers and clients.

Collective

SUX has to be driven all together.
With the community, for the community and non-profit.

Our idea

How we want to do it

Our idea

How we want to do it

We want to build a practical toolset

based on all UN Sustainable Development Goals - a collection of daily work tools, communication helpers and best practice cases. And we are convinced that this cannot (and should not) be built by a few people only. Instead we want to invite you to join, to use the power of the community to create SUX all together for all of us.

Therefore we created a workshop template - the SUX workshop kit. It provides a step by step guideline based on well known UX-tools. In a series of four workshops a group can understand and analyze one or more SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and create concrete ideas to tackle it. And we are starting it altogether with you at the SUX Kickoff on 9th of November 2021.