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Tag: gerry mcgovern
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Embracing Sustainable Digital Design
In every design decision we make we must think about the earth experience. Does this decision contribute to or reduce global warming?
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Google's Increasingly Dark Shadow
I used to be a big fan of Google. It had a search engine that put the searcher before the advertiser. Then money called and Google changed.
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The Data Pollution Problem
The technology industry has grown super rich by being super bad for the planet.
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How Science Lets Us Down
We must rein in the worsts elements of the internet. A robust, evidence-based, science-informed, societal-level approach can do that.
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We Need to Do More About Electronic Waste
This idea that to race into the future you must be allowed to break everything, to trash everything and to waste everything must be challenged.
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Moving Fast Breaks Things
Is continuously improving a website more sustainable — more energy efficient, less wasteful — than carefully planning and designing something meant to last?
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Use Your Brain
Slowly but surely, technology is infantilizing us.
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Web, We Have a Problem
We must change the toxic model of planned obsolescence, of a design culture that obsesses about speed, coolness and innovation for the sake of innovation.
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Burn Your Own Energy
Think of the amount of energy and waste required to get a smart speaker to turn the light off.
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Delete 90%: Principles of Digital Earth Experience Design
Digital culture is the worst possible culture to address global warming.
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Principles of Digital Earth Experience Design
Digital makes it so easy to waste that we don’t even think we’re wasting.
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Focus on the Waste: Developing an Earth Experience Culture in Digital
We must think much more and create much less. We must share and reuse much more. Pause. Resist. Slow down.
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Protecting the Digital Public Space
What if we reclaim the digital public space?
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Calculating the Pollution Cost of Website Analytics, Part 4
Website analytics metrics feed the Cult of Volume. Such tactics rarely add value for anyone.
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