Lesson 3The main principles of sustainable web design
- Notion 16 - What is sustainable web design and its main principles?
- Notion 17 - Become a Carbon-Aware Designer
- Notion 18 - Web design strategies also involve the Content & Marketing department
- Notion 19 - Evaluate & recognize a sustainable website from an unsustainable one (case analysis: 1 to 3) • a website with cluttered JavaScript • a website with heavy media • a non-responsive website
- Notion 20 - You’re ready: The Sustainable Web Manifesto.
- Notion 21 - Review of sustainable web design and its main principles
Notion 16
What is sustainable web design and its main principles?
Target skills
According to Tom Greenwood (the author of "Sustainable Web Design"), Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first. It is based on the following principles: clean, efficient, open, honest, regenerative, and resilient. (Learn more in our notion 20 about the Sustainable Web Manifesto).
As we will see throughout this lesson, these principles can be implemented through a number of good practices:
1. Web Performance Optimization
How quickly do assets download to a user’s device? Web Performance Optimization implies good practices such as image optimization, reducing http requests, code minification.
2. Content Findability
How quickly can users find the content they need? And how useful is that content once it’s found? Content findability implies working on SEO, keywords and content organization.
3. Usability
How quickly can all users accomplish tasks across devices and platforms at various bandwidth speeds? Usability implies good practices such as working on a sober and uncluttered design, a familiar and accessible navigation layout, optimizing page loading times and making your website responsive.
4. Green Web Hosting
Are the servers hosting your digital products and services powered by renewable energy? Is your provider local?
5. Client and Project Ethos
What are your digital projects actually promoting or selling? How do you execute them transparently and effectively?
6. Business Practices:
How does your organization embody these same principles in its operations?
To go further and access some useful resources on this topic, you can go on this website : https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/sustainable-web-design/