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Tag: gerry mcgovern
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Content Is Critical. So Why Do We Launch and Forget?
“We still live in a ‘publish and be damned’ world,” Sarah Winters said.
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Content Is Critical, Part 1
GOV.UK has shown what online government for the people can be like, by being functional, evidence-based, rigorously tested, clear and useful.
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The More You Remove, The More You Can Remove
Waste data, waste code, waste content — all have real consequences.
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The Price of Free Is Waste
The bad and wasteful habits we develop in digital feed into the rest of our lives. Let’s clean up our digital world.
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Reducing Website Weight
“Thou shalt not delete” is one of the 10 commandments of the software bible.
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From Digital Unsustainability to Digital Sustainability
How can designers with unsustainable habits and work practices help create a sustainable world with sustainable products and services?
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Moving Beyond the Cult of Volume, Part 3
What would Liam do different if he was starting an agency again? “Number one, I think, would be to create a culture of deleting things."
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Moving Beyond the Cult of Volume, Part 2
In digital, we are trapped in a monotonous, relentless process of newness that is rarely useful and very often damaging but must be embraced because it’s new.
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Moving Beyond the Cult of Volume, Part 1
It’s hard to pursue quality in a world obsessed with quantity and convenience.
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Let's Green the Web
The curse of digital is the curse of the “almost nothing” cost.
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Change Has Become an Excuse for Lazy Design
We must design things on the basis that we want them to last, rather than we expect them to change. Because when you expect nothing to last, nothing does.
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Technology Is Part of the Problem
Modern technology is the key accelerant of global warming.
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Embracing Sustainable Digital Design, Part 3
We need far more circular economy thinkers, who think of end of life as much as the launch of the shiny, new thing.
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Embracing Sustainable Design, Part 2
We must take responsibility for the things we do in digital. Without responsibility there's no accountability. Without accountability there is inevitably waste.
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