Back in the UK / GreenIO London / Case Study Collection / Bits & Pieces
Some news: I’ve moved back to the UK after more than a decade in the US. It’s been a lot, but I’m finally sliding back into all things sustainable UX.
What it means for the newsletter: probably not much, except possibly a greater focus on UK/EU topics.
Green IO 23rd & 24th September
Yes, that’s today and tomorrow. I’ll be there tomorrow. I enjoyed speaking at the NYC event back in May, it’s a well-run event with good speakers. The NYC speakers did a great job of breaking down technical topics and I came away buzzing about data center optimization and GreenOps and whatnot.
Good things in small packages: Tiny Web Awards
Remember when the internet was a fun and creative place? When did that stop? Was it in 2004, when Facebook was founded? 2009, when Geocities (archive) went dark? Anyway, the Tiny Web Awards celebrates “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”.
“Tiny” doesn’t necessarily mean low-bandwidth in this context. For instance, one of my favorite 2025 entries, The Historical Tech Tree, has a (justifiable) page size of 2.5MB.
So here’s my prize-within-a-prize: The SustainableUX Award for Lightest Website in the Tiny Awards Finalist List goes to … 10,000 Drum Machines, at 151kb.
And special shout-out to one of 2023’s finalists, Solar Protocol. “..[a website ] hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.”
Rosenfeld’s growing collection of case studies on Climate UX
Rosenfeld Media has been doing sterling work showcasing climate design work. Check out this collection of case studies and interviews:
Tristin Oldani: Turning Awareness into Action at Intel (January, 2025): case study / interview recording*
James Chudley: Decarbonising User Journeys: How minimizing enables us to do more with less (February, 2025): article / interview recording*
Tim Frick: The journey of building a sustainable design practice (April, 2025): article / interview recording*
Chris Hammond: Embedding Sustainability in Design at IBM (April, 2025): article / interview recording*
Amy Parness: Scaling Sustainability: Complementary strategies that drive long-term success (May, 2025): article (forthcoming) / interview recording*
Sarah Conklin: A UXer’s 12-Month Journey from Climate Concern to Climate Credibility (June, 2025): article (forthcoming) / interview recording*
* To view a recording, you'll need a Free tier Rosenverse subscription.
Louis Rosenfeld added: “… if you know anyone who'd also be interested in presenting their own climate UX case study, please get them in touch with us.”
That’s all we have time for.
Got to go pack my backpack & make a playlist for my train trip to GreenIO tomorrow. If you are also going to be there, please say hi.
ps: I’m doing a bit of freelancing while looking for a new full time gig. So, uh, gimme a job?