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We are SUX, a global non-profit community and initiative to drive sustainability through and within UX and Design. Join the SUX community for free, support our work and contribute or learn how to design and build sustainable digital products.

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27th Mar 2025
April 1st 2025
April & May 2025
Masterclass "Become a sustainable UX Designer", April 24 or May 7
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Learn from SUX Founder Thorsten Jonas how to incorporate Sustainable UX practices in your daily work. We provide online-courses for individuals as well as masterclasses for design- and product-teams.

The podcast for designers and digital product builders where we speak about Digital Sustainability, Responsible AI and Sustainable UX.

Learn from SUX Founder Thorsten Jonas how to incorporate Sustainable UX in your daily work. We provide online-courses for individuals as well as masterclasses for design- and product-teams. 



We need to change some of the core paradigms of UX

What is Sustainable UX?

SUX is the approach to design sustainable digital products by moving beyond user-centered design to an environmental and humanity centered design approach.

We focus so intensely on the needs of our users and try to align them with business needs that we completely overlook who or what else is affected by our designs. Every product always has a larger systemic context. There are always additional actors (human and non-human) involved beside our users, direct or indirect.

Every "great" User Experience comes with a price that needs to be paid somewhere else. And this is a fundamental problem of how we execute UX so far. By focussing on the user we miss all the other actors that are impacted by what we design and create.

We must stop designing solely for our users and instead always understand and review our work within the systemic context.

By expanding the focus from individual user satisfaction to the broader impacts on ecosystems and communities, UX professionals can help forge a path toward more sustainable and equitable digital futures.

As a consequence the SUX Network was founded in 2021 by a group of designers with the mission to transform UX into Sustainable UX and to make Sustainability default in the digital design process.


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As UX Designers (as well as all people involved in creating digital services, products and experiences) we shape digital experiences, which fulfill user needs and drive business goals. We fight for the user and …
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Sustainable UX is the approach to design sustainable digital products by moving beyond user-centered design to an environmental and humanity centered design approach. The 11 principles of Sustainable UX help to achieve this goal, …
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SUX Academy

Become a Sustainable UX Designer

Lecturer: Thorsten Jonas

We just launched the SUX Academy, where you can learn from SUX founder Thorsten Jonas how to use Sustainable UX to design and build sustainable digital products:

  • Next Masterclasses: April 24 or May 7
  • Team-Masterclasses: In addition we offer a special tailored Team-Masterclass for your Design- or Product team. All Infos here
  • Online Courses: The first online Course is going to start in Q2 2025. Sign up the waitlist

Find everything on our new SUX Academy site. 

SUX Academy

Become a Sustainable UX Designer

Lecturer: Thorsten Jonas

We just launched the SUX Academy, where you can learn from SUX Founder Thorsten Jonas how to use Sustainable UX to design and build sustainable digital products:

  •  
  • Next Masterclasses: April 24 or May 7
  • Team-Masterclasses: In addition we offer a special tailored Team-Masterclass for your Design- or Product team. All Infos here  
  • Online Course: The first online Course is going to start in Q2 2025. Sign up the waitlist

Find everything on our new SUX Academy site. 

SUX Playbook

Tools & Resources

1st June 2024

We have developed a bunch of tools and put it together to a framework at the moment - The Sustainable ¨UX Playbook. Besides we build up the public SUX resource database with tools, methods, articles for all design phases. The Playbook is released soon, meanwhile browse the resource database with more than 120 resources or submit your own tool to be added to the database.

SUX Playbook

Tools & Resources

1st June 2024

We have developed a bunch of tools and put it together to a framework at the moment - The Sustainable ¨UX Playbook. Besides we build up the publi SUX resource database with tools, methods, articles for all design phases. The Playbook is released soon, meanwhile browse the resource database with more than 120 resources or submit your own tool to be added to the database.

SUX Podcast

EP 18: "World WideWaste" 
with Gerry McGovern

07/03/2025        Moderator: Thorsten Jonas

Welcome to this episode of the SUX Podcast. This time Thorsten had the honor to be joined by Gerry McGovern. Gerry is the author of the book "World Wide Waste" and widely known for his work on digital sustainability and e-waste. You probably have heart a famous quote from this book: "Up to 90% of all digital data is not used". Join this deep cnversation about the dark side of big tech and innovation and why AI is a big problem not only from an environmental point of view. 

SUX Podcast

EP 18: "World WideWaste" with Gerry McGovern

07/03/2025        Moderator: Thorsten Jonas

Welcome to this episode of the SUX Podcast. This time Thorsten had the honor to be joined by Gerry McGovern. Gerry is the author of the book "World Wide Waste" and widely known for his work on digital sustainability and e-waste. You probably have heart a famous quote from this book: "Up to 90% of all digital data is not used". Join this deep cnversation about the dark side of big tech and innovation and why AI is a big problem not only from an environmental point of view. 

„The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.“

Robert Swan

„The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.“

Robert Swan

We want to use the power of the community to be and drive change

SUX Events & Meetups

Sustainable UX and driving change is a teamsport. We need to get together to discuss, to share and to learn.

Everyone of us might be able to change the world in her or his own. But together we have the power and the impact to be and drive change. Therefore the SUX Network hosts and co-oranizes various event-formats.

In our monthly online get together the SUX community meets and discusses one topic per event, providing a mix of inspiration, dicsussion and sharing. SUX local chapters run local events in various cities, inviting everbody to meet in person, to listen to inspiring people and to practice certain SUX tools. Futhermore we run special events as well as co-organize events with other organizations.

Find in our event section all of SUX Events as well as events that are related with us, where we speak or where we offer a workshop.

Let's get to know!

We do SUX

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Thorsten Jonas

SUX Founder & Ambassador, Sustainable UX & Responsibe AI Consultant, Trainer & Keynote Speaker
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Isabel Pettinato

SUX Branding & UI Design, independent Creative Director & Designer
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Bavo Lodewyckx

SUX Ambassador, Event Organiser, independent UX Strategy & Concept Designer
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Christoph Stark

SUX Ambassador, Creative Director, Design Thinker, Surfer
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Stine Søndergaard Ramsing

SUX Ambassador & SUX Copenhagen Lead, independent UX Designer & Speaker
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Alice Markmann

SUX Contributor, UX Designer
Portraet Meghan

Meghan Logan

SUX Ambassador,
Staff Product Designer
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... and you! 

What are you waiting for?
Join us.
Let's get to know!

We do SUX

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Thorsten Jonas

SUX Founder & Ambassador, Sustainable UX & Responsibel AI Consultant, Trainer & Keynote Speaker
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Isabel Pettinato

SUX Branding & UI Design, independent Creative Director & Designer
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Bavo Lodewyckx

SUX Ambassador, Event Organiser, independent UX Strategy & Concept Designer
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Christoph Stark

SUX Ambassador, Creative Director, Design Thinker, Surfer
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Stine Søndergaard Ramsing

SUX Ambassador & SUX Copenhagen Lead, independent UX Designer & Speaker
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Alice Markmann

SUX Contributor, UX Designer
Portraet Meghan

Meghan Logan

SUX Ambassador
Staff Product Designer
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... and you! 

What are you waiting for?
Join us.
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