5.4 Communicate the environmental impact of user choices
Business Strategy And Product Management
Empower visitors, allowing them to make decisions when their choices can influence the environmental impact they have.
Criteria
- Communication of impact: Human-testable
Clearly communicate the environmental impact of different user choices and allow users to configure settings based on the information provided.- Communicating Sustainability
- GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 4.15 – UX and UI (Sustainability Tracking)
- GR491 – 6-3039 – Software or Hardware Configurations
- How Can Behavioral Science Encourage Sustainable Decisions?
- How to communicate the environmental impact of your products
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 1 – Poverty
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 4 – Education
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 12 – Consumption & Production
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 13 – Climate Change
- Web Almanac: Sustainability
Benefits
- Conversion
Communicating the impact and allowing the user to set preferences with the environmental impact in mind can encourage more individuals to make environmentally friendly choices and improve your image among ethical consumers. - Environment
Allowing users to select more environmentally friendly settings within software naturally reduces the environmental impact. - Performance
Reducing unnecessary or wasteful, less sustainable behaviors will often improve performance and accessibility, as these are often interlinked.
GRI
- Materials: Medium
- Energy: Medium
- Water: Medium
- Emissions: Medium