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◂ User Experience Design guidelines

2.1 Identify, assess, disclose, review, and mitigate sustainability impacts

User Experience Design

Assess and report the planet, people, and prosperity impacts of digital projects, and plan measurable reductions to the real-world effects of their activity.

Success Criteria

  • Impact analysis:
    Review the planet, people, and prosperity impacts of your project at the start and at regular intervals. Record the main issues you identify, where improvements are needed, and the progress you make. Reflect these findings in your public-facing governance documents and project reporting.
  • External impact:
    Create a plan to reduce the non-digital environmental and social impacts of digital activities associated with your project. Include impacts from logistics and delivery emissions, infrastructure emissions, local health effects, and supply chain pressures. Use measurable actions to improve external planet, people, and prosperity outcomes.

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2.2 Understand user requirements or constraints

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2.3 Integrate sustainability into every stage of the ideation process

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2.4 Design efficient and streamlined user journeys

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