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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.
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 "Become a Sustainable UX Designer: 23+26 June 2025 All Info and Tickets
- Team-Masterclasses: In addition we offer a special tailored Team-Masterclass for your Design- or Product team. All Infos here
- NEW: Masterclass "Sustainability and Ethics in Gen AI" in June Sign up waitlist
Find everything also on our 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: June 2025 - Sign up waitlist
- Team-Masterclasses: In addition we offer a special tailored Team-Masterclass for your Design- or Product team. All Infos here
- NEW: Masterclass "Sustainability and Ethics in Gen AI" in June Sign up waitlist
Find everything also on our SUX Academy site.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship.
Latest Articles from our blog
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 19: "Changemakers"
with Maria Giudice
23/04/2025 Moderator: Thorsten Jonas
Welcome to this episode of the SUX Podcast. This time Thorsten had the honor to be joined by Maria Giudice. You probably know Maria for her books “Changemakers - How Leaders can Design Change” or “Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design”. Thorsten and Maria speak about how Design can and must actively drive change, but also why all leaders should have design skills. From there they dive deeper into what is good, into Narratives and why fear-based stories stick so much more to people than the positive narratives, but also how we all can drive positive change.
SUX Podcast
EP 19: "Change-makers" with Maria Giudice
23/04/2025 Moderator: Thorsten Jonas
Welcome to this episode of the SUX Podcast. This time Thorsten had the honor to be joined by Maria Giudice. You probably know Maria for her books “Changemakers - How Leaders can Design Change” or “Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design”. Thorsten and Maria speak about how Design can and must actively drive change, but also why all leaders should have design skills. From there they dive deeper into what is good, into Narratives and why fear-based stories stick so much more to people than the positive narratives, but also how we all can drive positive change.
„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
Thorsten Jonas
SUX Founder & Ambassador, Sustainable UX & Responsibe AI Consultant, Trainer & Keynote Speaker
Isabel Pettinato
SUX Branding & UI Design, independent Creative Director & Designer
Bavo Lodewyckx
SUX Ambassador, Event Organiser, independent UX Strategy & Concept Designer
Christoph Stark
SUX Ambassador, Creative Director, Design Thinker, Surfer
Stine Søndergaard Ramsing
SUX Ambassador & SUX Copenhagen Lead, independent UX Designer & Speaker
Alice Markmann
SUX Contributor, UX Designer
Meghan Logan
SUX Ambassador,
Staff Product Designer
Simon Fenske
SUX Ambassador, SUX Bremen Lead, Sustainable UX Designer, Green Web Developer
Nadja Bozovic
SUX Ambassador, Writer, Editor, Strategist
Ingo Waclawczyk
SUX Ambassador, Managing UX Professional
... and you!
What are you waiting for?
Join us.
Let's get to know!
We do SUX
Thorsten Jonas
SUX Founder & Ambassador, Sustainable UX & Responsibel AI Consultant, Trainer & Keynote Speaker
Isabel Pettinato
SUX Branding & UI Design, independent Creative Director & Designer
Bavo Lodewyckx
SUX Ambassador, Event Organiser, independent UX Strategy & Concept Designer
Christoph Stark
SUX Ambassador, Creative Director, Design Thinker, Surfer
Stine Søndergaard Ramsing
SUX Ambassador & SUX Copenhagen Lead, independent UX Designer & Speaker
Alice Markmann
SUX Contributor, UX Designer
Meghan Logan
SUX Ambassador, Staff Product Designer
Simon Fenske
SUX Ambassador, SUX Bremen Lead, Sustainable UX Designer, Green Web Developer
Nadja Bozovic
SUX Ambassador, Writer, Editor, Strategist
Ingo Waclawczyk
SUX Ambassador, Managing UX Professional
... and you!
What are you waiting for?
Join us.
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