How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where reuse is at the core of thinking. One where the Earth Experience is central. Gerry McGovern will talk to designers who are pioneering green digital thinking and methods.
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Sarah Winters 'How COVID-19 drove panic publishing'
41:58
41:58
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
41:58
When COVID-19 hit, many governments reverted to a panic publishing approach, getting as much content up on their websites as quickly as possible. Structure, organization, testing, it all got shoved aside in the rush to publish. Sarah explains how this sort of panic publishing culture can be avoided in the future because panicking serves nobody. Sar…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Liam Nugent '99.9% of what you do is rubbish'
44:08
44:08
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
44:08
When Liam Nugent closed down his digital agency he accounted for all the digital stuff they had created. Each employee was generating about 100 gigabytes of data a year. When they cleaned up all this data so as to give a quality hand-off to their clients, they found that 99.9% of the 8 terabytes of data they had created was useless. Buy the book by…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy'
37:12
37:12
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
37:12
Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable. Beth Stensen, their CEO, talks to Gerry McGovern about how Netlife is on a new journey which focuses on the Earth Experience. It’s exciting and challenging times. Digital can often accelerate very bad and wasteful human …
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Nick Evanson 'Big Data growth is not sustainable'
52:58
52:58
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
52:58
By 2035, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,000 zettabytes of data produced globally. Based on current storage pricing, 2,000 zettabytes would cost $58 trillion to store. The global economy is currently worth about $80 trillion. The pace and quantity of data production is not even remotely sustainable. One zettabyte—just one zettabyte—w…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Jono Alderson 'The unseen cost of poor web design'
49:22
49:22
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
49:22
The growth in webpage size over the years has been astounding. It is driven by a culture of delivery, a project mindset, and a feeling that the Web is this unlimited space where you can essentially do anything you want without consequences. But good web design is a complex task that many organizations are either unwilling or unable to manage profes…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.'
1:07:52
1:07:52
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
1:07:52
This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the worlds best trainers Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Chris Coyier 'Easy to design, hard to use'
47:18
47:18
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
47:18
This episode was brought to you by ThisisDoing.com Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping digital designs. Chris says we need new thinking and new tools that clearly indicate when we are making design decisions that a…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Erika Hall 'Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience'
58:05
58:05
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
58:05
This episode was brought to you by This is Doing - Design & Innovation Online Learning In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we've ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it? https://muledesign.com/speaking/erika-hall Buy Gerry McGovern's new book 'World Wide Waste' Sup…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Karen Peeters 'Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story'
17:06
17:06
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
17:06
We need your support. Show some love by becoming a Premium Member. Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet and what to do about it. What is quality when it comes to web design, web development, web management? How do we know the customer is having a quality experience? How do we know as a web professional that…
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Eric Meyer 'Overcoming complexity’s invisible force'
1:07:53
1:07:53
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
1:07:53
Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. Eric Meyer is a passionate advocate of designing for humanity, of leaving no one behind when you create your design, of thinking deeply about how things work for everyone - not …
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
50:57
50:57
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
50:57
Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I'm chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet. Every time I see him speak, I'm struck by his calming presence, his brilliant mind and …
W
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

1
Introducing 'World Wide Waste' with Gerry McGovern
1:56
1:56
Spela senare
Spela senare
Listor
Gilla
Gillad
1:56
We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team, and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste. How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where …