Sustainable Design for Digital Products
Like most of the UI/UX designers wonder, you must be wondering what does digital design has to do with Sustainability. After all any UI/UX design does not do any harm to the environment. But with industries with large energy consumption, digital products and their design, for example Crypto Currencies do impact the environment and that too mostly in negative terms. As a Product Designer or a UI/UX designer, one can come up with innovative design solutions to develop digital products or optimized websites/applications which consumes lesser energy resources and is highly optimized and efficient.
For Example, A simple feature of having a “dark mode” in your application, product or website reduces the strain on energy consumed by the local machine, these are very small individual steps but collectively, they product immense results.
What is Sustainable Design?
In the day and age of environmental awareness, customers have become more environmentally conscious and a survey shows the design industry is also moving this way. Product designers are now focusing more on sustainable design, most importantly since the market is moving towards sustainable and environment-friendly products, there is a growing demand for designers with good knowledge of sustainable design for designing these physical and digital designs. In this article, we will discuss what sustainable design is and why you as a designer be aware of it.
What is Sustainable Design?