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This time we were joined by one of the long-time trailblazers of digital Sustainability - Tom Greenwood, Founder of Wholegrain Digital and Author of “Sustainable Webdesign”.


We spoke about digital Sustainability, and how Tom’s Journey into it already began 2004. And we discussed the challenges of advocating for digital sustainability and where we are at the moment and what we actually can do as designers on various levels. 


In the second half of the conversation we were diving deep into AI, its impacts and if AI can help us saving the world or helps destroying it. We were discussing if AI is creative and what the use of AI does to us as humans. 


It was a very deep and inspirational conversation and if you want to learn more what you should ask yourself when using AI, tune in to this episode of the SUX Podcast.


 

Connect with our guest or us:


Tom’s Channels:


Tom’s agency Wholegrain Digital: https://www.wholegraindigital.com/ 


Tom’s Newsletter “Oximoron”: https://tomgreenwood.substack.com/ 


Toms’ “Humanitas et Machina”: https://hopefulepoch.substack.com/ 


Tom’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgreenwood/ 


Toms’ Book “Sustainable Web Design”: https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/ 




Sources from the episode:


Book “Approaching the Natural” by Sid Garza-Hillman:

https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/ 


Blog-Article: “Will AI be good for the environment?”:

https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/will-ai-be-good-for-the-environment/


Website Carbon Calculator: https://websitecarbon.com  




Our Channels:


Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 


SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website


Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

You most probably know our guest already. This time we had the honor to be joined by Don Norman, author of "Design of everyday things" or "Design for a better world" , Co-Founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, University Professor and so much more for many of us.

We spoke about morning walks, elaborated on Humanity Centered Design and why Dons latest book was a different one, when he started writing it. We discussed about the importance of curiosity and made the connection between design, business and decision making and how it relates to sustainability. We spoke about sustainability and why it can only be the beginning and why it is good to be wrong sometimes. And we discussed how human centered design is wrong and why and how it needs to be enhanced and changed.

So, if you want to learn more about Humanity Centered Design and what is wrong with Human Centered Design, about how Don writes his books, but also about how to stay curious and not get older, even when you are 88, join us for this episode of the SUX podcast.



Connect with our guest or us:



Don’s Channels:



Don Norman Design Award and Summit: https://donnormanaward.design/



Don’s Book “Design for a better world”:  https://jnd.org/books/design-for-a-better-world/



Don’s Website: https://jnd.org/



Don’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnorman/ 





Sources from the episode:



Book “Lean Impact” by Ann Mei Chang: https://www.annmei.com/



Book “Design for the real world” by Vicgor Papanek: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190560.Design_for_the_Real_World





SUX Academy:



Waitlist for the upcoming Course “Become a Sustainable UX Designer”:  https://sustainableuxnetwork.com/#courses



And for information and curriculum options about the Sustainable UX Masterclass for design and product-teams get in touch with Thorsten: thorsten@sustainableuxnetwork.com





Our Channels:



Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 



SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website



Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

You probably have heard of life-centered design or non-human personas. But, have you applied it to your work already? 

For this episode we were joined by Damien Lutz from Sydney, Australia, one of the most prominent voices and drivers of life-centered design as well as the author of the “Life-centered design guide” and the “Non-human persona guide”. 

We discussed the problems of nowadays design, how we need to change the way we design from being destructive to being sustainable and regenerative. We spoke about non-human personas and if apples mother nature video is a good thing or not.

So, if you want to hear more about life-centered design, non-human personas and how to apply it. And if you want to learn about Damiens journey into the world of life-centered design, join us for this episode of the SUX Podcast.



Connect with our guest or us:



Damien’s Channels:



Damiens Websites:

https://lifecentred.design/

https://futurescouting.com.au/



Damiens Book “Life-centred Design Guide”: https://lifecentred.design/the-life-centred-design-guide/



Damiens Book “The non-human persona guide”: https://lifecentred.design/non-human-personas/the-non-human-persona-guide/



Damiens Book “Future Scouting”: https://futurescouting.com.au/design-guide-book/



Damien’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damien-lutz-36230515/



Sources from the episode:



Book „Super Nature“ by Lyall Watson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525843.Supernature 



https://ecograder.com/ 



https://sustainablewebdesign.org



Articles by Monica Sznel: https://medium.com/@unpacking.design



Book “Design for the real world” by Victor Papanek:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190560.Design_for_the_Real_World



Our Channels:



Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 



SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website



Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

This is a special bonus episode: It is Part 2 of our interview with Xhensila Reci. In the previous episode we spoke with Xhensila about Purpose Driven Design and its relation to Sustainability (--> Link). In this bonus episode we do the friendship book and speak about Xhensilas way into UX and to LEGO and we play together her wonderful card game “Someone You” (--> Link) to learn more about each other. 

It is the first time that we split an interview into two episodes. But since the whole conversation with Xhensila was just wonderful and super insightful, we decided that we did not want to cut anything out. 

If you haven’t heard part 1 of the interview yet, we recommend you listen to it first: SUX EP 10 - “Purpose Driven Design with Xhensila Reci” https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/suxpodcast/episodes/SUX-EP-10---Purpose-driven-design-with-Xhensila-Reci-e2dpmeo 



Connect with our guest or us:

Xhensilas Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xhensila/ 

Xhensilas Website: https://www.xhensilareci.com/

Xhensilas Card-Game “Someone You”: https://www.xhensilareci.com/shop/someoneyou 

Xhensilas Talk about Purpose Driven Design at at WUC 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAURrbVmM4&t=4s&ab_channel=WorldUsabilityCongress⁠





Sources from the episode:

Book “The Atlas of the Heart” by Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/



Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website

Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

Today we have something very special for you. Finally here it is: the lost episode. Last year we recorded this wonderful and extra long episode with Xhensila Reci from LEGO to speak about Purpose Driven Design. For several reasons, we did not manage to cut it and to decide if we should keep it this long, re-cut it, or make two episodes of it. Since the whole conversation with Xhensila was just wonderful and super insightful, we decided that we did not want to cut anything out. The SUX friendship book was super insightful and we also played Xhensilas wonderful game “Someone You”. 

So, this interview became the first episode that consists of two parts. This part - Part 1 - contains the main conversation, where we spoke about purpose driven design, Xhensilas work at LEGO and how it strongly connects to purpose driven design. 

Part 2 will be released next week as a bonus episode that contains the SUX Friendship Book and also the part where Xhensila and Thorsten play Xhensilas wonderful card game “Someone You”.

So, if you want to learn how to do, achieve and drive purpose driven design, about working at LEGO and why a Banana played an important role in Xhensilas journey into UX and purpose driven design, do not miss this episode as well as the bonus episode.

One little side note: we had a few minor audio issues with Thorstens audio track in the beginning. We apologize for that. And no worries, it will be gone after a few minutes. 



Connect with our guest or us:



Xhensilas Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xhensila/ 

Website: https://www.xhensilareci.com/

Xhensilas Card-Game “Someone You”: https://www.xhensilareci.com/shop/someoneyou 

Xhensilas Talk about Purpose Driven Design at WUC 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAURrbVmM4&t=4s&ab_channel=WorldUsabilityCongress⁠





Sources from the episode:

Book “The Atlas of the Heart” by Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/



Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 



SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website



Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.

SUX Podcast Live Episode: this is a recording of the panel discussion about “Collaboration & cooperation as key for sustainability” at the SUX Focus Event 01

A few weeks ago we launched our new event series: SUX Focus Events. The main idea of focus events is to collect a group of experts to discuss and deep dive into a certain topic in a panel discussion.

In this first event we were spotlighting "Cooperation & Collaboration", a theme vital to sustainability and core to SUX Network's mission. And it led to a very inspiring and interesting conversation that we want to share with you here in the podcast.

Join the panel and follow the inspiring conversation Bavo and Thorsten had with:


Helle Martens - UX Research Consultant and Founder/Host of the UX Copenhagen Conference from Denmark
Akos Csertan - Impact-driven digital product design expert and Founder of Atlas, Rise! from Hungary
Laura Korčulanin - Regeneration Consultant and Founder of Give a Shit from Portugal
Robert Kozma - Emeritus Principal Scientist and Book Author of “Make the World a Better Place” from the US



And stay tuned: The next SUX Focus Event will take place in January/February 2024 and touch the topic “Sustainability and AI”.



Connect with our guest or us:

Helle’s Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helle-martens/ 

UX Copenhagen: 20./21. March 2024 https://uxcopenhagen.com/

Lauras Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurakorculanin/ 

Sustainable UX/UI Design eBook: https://lp.ironhack.com/sustainable-ux-ui-design-ebook 

Website “Give a Shit”: https://www.giveashitnow.org/ 

Akos Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csertanakos/ 

Website: https://atlasrise.io/

Roberts Channels:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kozma-ph-d-26b7278/

Website: https://www.design-a-better.world/

Book “Make the world a better place”: https://www.design-a-better.world/book-teaser 



Our Channels:

Bavo's Linkedin 

Thorsten's LinkedIn 

Isabel's LinkedIn 

SUX Slack Community 

SUX LinkedIn 

SUX Website



Email us at podcast@sustainableuxnetwork.com to share your feedback or suggest future guests.