2.1 Undertake Systemic Impacts Mapping
Many variables can impact the user-experience, and a bunch of these can impact how sustainable your website will be. Attempting to identify where you can make a difference to the visitor and give them a more sustainable experience will be beneficial.
Criteria
- External Variables: List the negative external variables and identify where your product’s sustainable impact can be diminished (systemic design).
Impact
Medium
Effort
Medium
Benefits
- Environmental:
Clearly understanding a system’s components can help a product team construct a plan to reduce emissions, especially from third-party services in an organization’s supply chain. - Privacy:
Teams can better prioritize data privacy when they clearly understand a system’s components, especially if they can identify potential risks to data protection. - Social Equity:
Teams can better prioritize social equity when they clearly understand a system’s components. They must pay special attention to considerations from underrepresented groups, as these variables may not be well understood or covered in existing best practices. - Accessibility:
Teams can better prioritize accessibility when they clearly understand the components of a system. This is because they will understand their target audience and can identify improvements to make beyond basic inclusive design practices which could provide a well-rounded experience.
GRI
- materials: Medium
- energy: Medium
- water: Medium
- emissions: Medium
Example
- A Systemic Design Toolkit (PDF).
Resources
- [AFNOR] Spec 5.1.6 (French)
- Are my third parties green?
- ATOS Ecobranding Report (PDF)
- Digital Eco-Design: Assess and measure
- [GR491] 7-3047 – Systemic Approach
- IBM Design For Sustainability (PDF)
- Learn Performance
- Nachhaltige Websites? (German)
- Opquast Web Quality Assurance Checklist (PDF)
- Reduce the weight of a web page: which elements have the greatest impact?
- Scope 3 Emissions in Your Digital Supply Chain
- The Fog of Enactment
- Variables of Web Sustainability (PDF)
- Why your internet habits are not as clean as you think