Green Interfaces

Experience and interaction designs for sustainability

World Usability Day and the Global Transport Challenge

Today is World Usability Day 2008, and this year's theme is transportation.  As part of the day's events, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) has announced the Global Transport Challenge, which includes a little web-based carbon calculator. It's an easy way for you to understand how you use transportation everyday and the ...

Sustainable CHI Conferences and Papers

Position papers for the "Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability" workshop of Pervasive 2008 will soon be posted online (The event also has a Facebook page).  Workshop organizer Marcus Foth, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, recently announced the selections, among them: "Using persuasive technology to encourage sustainable behavior", from ...

Advocating for Sustainable Design and Open Knowledge-Sharing

“Our first green products must be ourselves.” In the summer of 02007, Valarie Casey, current head of software/digital experiences at IDEO, wrote an article in frog design’s bi-monthly newsletter DesignMind called the Designer’s Dilemma. She wrote, Our addiction to sweeping change has hobbled us from seeing the most obvious opportunities for ...

About

This blog addresses sustainability in design, especially in experience and interaction design. Ideas, tools, and applications with an eye towards sustainable living are multiplying. I found that I was gathering a sizable cache of resources by my own research, and I hope that by sharing it I can inspire others.

Michael Gomez
User Experience and Interaction Design
Berlin and Austin

Sat 6 Aug 02011
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Google, Microsoft, shutter their home energy management offerings

Via Greenmonk: Last week Google announced that it was shutting down its PowerMeter application (a screenshot of which is above). A couple of days later Microsoft divulged that it was closing its PowerMeter competitor, Microsoft Hohm. Related posts:Home Base by EnergyHub Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo. via...
Thu 28 Apr 02011
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Nuage Vert

Nuage Vert was a project in Helsinki that "transforms clouds into projection surfaces." In effect, a laser picks out pollution coming from a power station. (via) No related posts.
Thu 17 Mar 02011
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Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption

via Protagonists of the Collaborative Consumption Movement Related posts:Home Base by EnergyHub Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo. via...
Thu 17 Mar 02011
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Home Base by EnergyHub

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Sparzähler Online

A little bit more about the Yello Google PowerMeter interface for Sparzähler online.  The utility has videos on its web promotion page, as well as a YouTube channel, including a video that shows the user experience on the home computer in more detail. The start page also features an advert with ...
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