The future of UX is green: On the Web Sustainability Guidelines
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A look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice
Add to calendarDigital transformation has an elephant in the room: the energy use of digital services can be enormous.
In 2024, the World Bank estimated the internet to account for 1-4% of global greenhouse emissions, similar to aviation. The good news is: there are many opportunities to improve. As UX practitioners, we can reduce emissions at work.
In this talk, we’ll look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice. The session is aimed at ambitious UX practitioners, who want to learn more about centering people, planet and prosperity.
Hidde de Vries is a web standards and digital accessibility specialist (CPWA) at the Dutch government. He is interested in making the web work for humans in the broadest sense of the word. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Sanity. Hidde is a contributor to the Web Sustainability Guidelines, co-editor of WCAG and WCAG-EM and a member of the W3C's Advisory Board. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade.