Grab your lunchbox, gather your colleagues, and let's discuss how we can design more sustainable digital products!
đź“… Date: 3rd June
⏰ Event start: 12:00
- Thorsten talk: 30 mins
- Q&A and discussion: 30 mins
đź“Ť Online (link coming soon)
About the topic
The digital infrastructure for the internet emits more carbon than the airline industry and most countries on this planet. Our data centers use billions of liters of fresh water for cooling. Digital is always physical.
We improve the convenience for our users, but we fail to balance it with the negative impacts on the surrounding ecosystems. By putting the user into the center of our work, we create harm on many other ends.
Tony Fry once asked: "Does what we create justify what we destroy?” Finding justice between convenience and negative impacts, between profit and greater good is one of the major challenges of the future.
Thorsten will speak about how we can set the digital experiences we create into the context of its surrounding ecosystems and how we can design and build not only for the good of our users and business stakeholders, but for a sustainable future and all actors in the system.
About Thorsten
Thorsten is a digital Sustainability Activist, responsible AI advocate and Sustainable UX Trailblazer. He is Keynote-Speaker and the founder of the non-profit global community SUX Network as well as the SUX Academy, co-leads the UX chapter of the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines as an invited expert at the W3C interest group for web sustainability and is the host of the SUX Podcast.
Thorsten is guiding and advising organizations in crafting sustainable, responsible, and ethical digital products while using tech and AI in a responsible way. In addition, he is teaching designers and product-managers as well as entire design- and product-teams or organizations in digital sustainability, sustainable UX and responsible AI in various course and workshop formats.
His passion for the outdoors and mountaineering drives his commitment to making sustainability and responsibility a fundamental aspect of digital design and the digital world in general.
