Introduction to Green Design 🌎 📲

Our introduction to Green Design course has been built to help you create the low carbon digital products and services of the future.

T&Cs apply.

Course overview 🧭

  • The Importance of Design-based Thinking: learn the purpose, role and relevance of Design Thinking in building sustainable products and services.

    Practical: Test your knowledge with Green Design Self Assessment

    • The Double Diamond Model (3.55)

    • The 4Ds

    • Conclusion and Test

    • Scenario test

    • Introduction - Green Design Principles

    • Principle 1: Adopt a Sustainability-based Design Maturity Model

    • Principle 2: Build a Green Content Strategy

    • Principle 3: Optimise Performance

    • Principle 4: Sustainable UX

    • Principle 5: Sustainable Software Engineering

    • Principle 6: Green Hosting and Cloud

    • Principle 7: Sustainability Based Measurement

    • Principle 8: Low Carbon Non Functional Requirement
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      End of Section Test

    • Introduction and the Green Design Checklist

    • Technique 1: Simplify the UX and Task Flow

    • Technique 2: Increase Reuse

    • Technique 3: Improve Accessibility

    • Technique 4: Adopt Tooling to Drive Optimisation

    • Technique 5: Use of Colour

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    Mid-Section Test

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    • Technique 6: Use of Images

    • Technique 7: Video

    • Technique 8: Fonts

    • Technique 9: Understand the Platform and Device Context

    • Technique 10: Collaboration and Teamwork

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    • End of Section Test

    • Applied Learning

This course is for…

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Designers
This introductory course is for designers who have yet to start considering sustainability as part of their problem solving and solutioning.

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Product teams & engineers
It is also suitable for engineers and product teams interested in knowing more on the topic so that they can collaborate more effectively with their design colleagues.

Looking to up-skill yourself or your team on Green Design? We can help.

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This is a Certified Course

After completing the course and passing the required tests you’ll receive your certificate automatically. Certificates are configured to share on platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter so that your network and employers can record your achievement.

Get started on your sustainability journey now

Download this checklist to help guide your sustainable IT decisions. Use them in conjunction with the training to maximise your impact. 

Design3 x GoCodeGreen

Decarbonising Technology and the Planet can't be done alone, that is why we are delighted to partner with GoCodeGreen to bring this course to you. A 2x Earthshot prize nominated organisation and a Certified B Corporation. GoCode Green is focused on measuring and identifying actions to reduce the carbon and environmental impact of digital products and services.

Before coding even starts, we need to ensure we are focused on tackling the sustainability of new digital products and services, and this is where Green Design is critical. We hope with this introductory course, we can build on existing Design methods and help you start to incorporate sustainability into the heart of your problem solving and solutions going forward.