Green UX/UI Design course
Learn the skills of a Green UX/UI Designer with a self-study or live class supported online course. Conduct sustainability infused research, architect lightweight digital products and design ecologically sustainable features. All through this powerful course experience.
The demand for green UX/UI designers is growing rapidly, and the certified course will show you how to create innovative and creative lightweight digital products with positive impact features.
You can change the world with UX/UI Design. Positively as well as negatively.
We design thousands of websites, apps, and other digital products a year. And what do we get? Slow-loading websites that can’t be opened during train rides. Frustrating online stores where it’s hard to find sustainable products. Emails that clutter our user’s inboxes with hundreds of attachments and images.
Yep, it’s true that the web has a carbon footprint. And that as a UX/UI Designer you can ensure sustainable consumption, mental health, accessibility and a lot more alongside lightweight websites. Much of it with a flyswatter.
Become a highly skilled designer who creates environmentally-friendly websites and apps without sacrificing your creativity
You’ve read hundreds of blog posts and listened to a bunch of podcasts about green web design.
And while you understand the importance of a more sustainable internet, now you want to know HOW to be a part of it. You find yourself wondering:
I feel you. I see you.
These are all questions that I can answer. Because I asked them myself over and over again.
Chic, sexy and highly converting UX/UI Design
Your designs can be anything. Loud. Quiet. Colorful. Relaxed. Romantic. Bubbly. Elegant. Warm-hearted. Serious. Modern. And everything else you want it to be.
Let’s get rid of the mindset of “I can’t do anything cool and modern anymore if it’s going to be environmentally sustainable.” That’s not true. We’re just using slightly different stylistic approaches. For usability, branding and our environment.
With green design, your digital product turns into a super fast oiled machine with an increase in SEO ranking, customers and conversions. How? Because it’s lightweight, more enjoyable for users and attracts the new era of conscious buyers and consumers.
Step by step along the design process
The Green UX/UI Design course comes with a 100% learning by doing approach. Step by step. Guiding you through the design process. Alongside a real or hypothetical project of your choice. It can be a website, an online shop, a mobile or a desktop application.
Prep work
Your values and intention
Outline your personal career intention and big picture vision. Identify blocks and negative beliefs that hold you back. Plus, build your very own manifesto.
Research
Step 1: Empathize
Get clear on your project’s business requirements, user‘s desires and, most importantly, nature‘s seat at the table. Bring nature into your projects, design and decision processes. Discover environmental stakeholders and create non-human Personas.
Step 2: Envision
Paint an ecologically sustainable vision for the project, brainstorm solutions and collect ideas to meet your grand project vision.
Step 3: Map the journey
Follow your user’s footsteps and map their user journey from before using your product, to during and after. Have a look at possible sustainable pitfalls and distill the content into an environment friendly navigation.
Design
Step 4: Architect the UX
Creatively dispel the UX/UI energy monsters and tap into your designer’s power on Design Systems, lightweight design, greener eCommerce, calm design and raising awareness. This chapter includes three fabulous guidebooks with examples and best practices.
Step 5: Design the UI
Choose colors and select fonts that conclude in greater energy efficiency. Plus, you’ll learn how to manipulate images and other visual elements in a visionary and artistic data-saving way. This chapter also includes a brilliant guidebook with awesome examples and best practices.
Step 6: Test and iterate
Prototype and test your design in a Usability Test with actual users. It saves a ton of energy and development time, concludes in way better products and is mind-blowing to experience.
Hand-off and analysis
Step 7: Development hand-off
Scale, compress and hand over your design deliverables in the most eco-friendly way possible. You’ll also get a basic understanding of sustainable hosting providers, tech stuff (CSS, JS, caching, etc.) as well as WordPress fundamentals. We won’t get into coding, but we need a good understanding to work with developers.
Step 8: Measure and audit
Analyze and audit the digital product’s footprint as well as other aspects of green UX/UI Design. We go through the various analysis options and how to work with the results.
Bonus module
Real life
Get ready for real life clients, colleagues and the corporate world. Understand how to sell green design, set healthy boundaries for yourself, run a sustainable digital office, find projects and infuse sustainability into your company and project processes.
You choose what suits you
You get life-time access and all future updates of the self-study materials.
Group live cohort
1.750 € (plus VAT if applicable)
The next live cohort starts in September 2024.
Individual route
1.350 € (plus VAT if applicable)
Self-study
850 € (plus VAT if applicable)
There’s also the option of team trainings for your company or agency.
Just send me an email to talk about the specifics.
Your time commitment
The Green UX/UI Design course is set to bring you up to speed in a period of 8 to 10 weeks with approximately 2 to 6 hours of work every week. You can certainly always do more, faster or slower if you choose to.
Your project
You have a website, application or online shop project coming up? Great! Then use the project to follow the course approach. You don’t have any current projects lined up? No problem! Just select a hypothetical project you’d like to design. It can be an existing website or some absolutely bonkers, out of this world, never seen before dream project. Plus, you can choose various projects for different parts of the course. It’s all up to you and what you want to work on.
Live calls
Live calls are your ask-anything-time. If you’re in the group live cohort they are a great way to connect with other members and get feedback on what you’re working on. If you chose the individual route it’s purely your time for your course progress and questions. Plus, if you can’t make it to a live call in the group cohort, you can send in questions and watch the recording.
You want to do more than just compressing images.
You’d love to hone your design skills so they become a force for good and make you a valuable asset to the ocean of companies with slow-loading, carbon-guzzling websites.
You want to feel creative, inspired and joyful.
You desire to whole-heartedly grasp the universe of ecologically sustainable design. With clarity and a real structure.
You want to live your passion. Your purpose.
I get it! That’s why I created this course. To offer you a different perspective on UX/UI Design. Set you up for success. Give you a fast lane pass.
Hi, I’m Sandy
I love this topic! When I heard about green design for the first time I immediately fell in love with it. I’ve worked with big companies like Adobe, Vodafone and more. But this topic finally drew me under its spell.
11+ years in UX/UI and 5+ years in ecologically and socially sustainable design have given me many insights into the design business. This course would be the fast lane for you.
What it allowed me to do? To work with clients I truly admire, such as Petricore as a sustainable hosting provider, to Zero Waste body care, to couples therapy, to women’s health, to many more. Websites, online shops, complex applications, landing pages, name it. All with the feeling of finally following a purpose. Bringing true value to the field.
As designers, we have a responsibility. Our websites shape society. They frustrate or inspire. They have an impact on our planet. And it is this responsibility that I would like to use wisely. With you. Towards Environment Centered Design.
Join the group live cohort
10 weeks of live group calls and individual feedback.
You learn with a mix of bite-sized video trainings, community, guidebooks, templates, real life best practices, weekly group video calls and personal reviews.
1.750 € (plus VAT if applicable)
That’s included
Take the individual route
Need more flexibility? Mix the self-study materials with individual live calls.
You get access to all the bite-sized video trainings, guidebooks, templates, real life best practices as well as individual live calls and video reviews (e.g. of your non-human Personas, User Journey Maps or digital design).
This option offers in-depth feedback for you plus the freedom to choose the live call times that suit you. After enrolling you get a link to my calendar where you can choose your preferred times. I make sure to offer times that are suitable for all time zones.
There’s the option to get the official Green UX/UI Design certificate with an extra review of your course progress at a small additional cost (visible on enrollment page).
1.350 € (plus VAT if applicable)
That’s included
Choose the self-study course
Want to do this fully on your own? You can!
Learn with bite-sized video trainings, guidebooks, templates, workbooks and real life best practices.
850 € (plus VAT if applicable)
That’s included
The Green UX/UI Design course is certified by the German State Central Agency for Distance Learning.
Got a question about the course?
You have another question? Just send me a message to hello@greentheweb.com. I’m always happy to connect with you.
Sign up for the live cohort waitlist
If you want to get news for upcoming cohorts, then join the waitlist.
Get all updates, sneak peeks and early access to the enrollment.
The next group live cohort starts in September 2024.
The course is certified by the German Central Office for Distance Learning
The Green UX/UI Design course has been extensively tested and approved by the ZFU (German State Central Agency for Distance Learning). This means you can be even more certain that the course meets high quality standards.
Change the world with your designs
Become a highly skilled designer who creates environmentally-friendly websites and apps without sacrificing your creativity.