Ūrjā
Energy-adaptive web design
Data partner
Solar Protocol
What makes a good website? Ask a designer and they might talk about established principles for building intuitive, aesthetic, accessible sites. Keeping aside individual user experiences, if we a take the whole of the web into account, particularly its global energy consumption, another metric becomes apparent. What is the energy cost of a webpage whizzing past the cables, criss-crossing the planet, going from servers to clients?
- Adaptive Visualisations
- Creative Coding
- Energy Centred Design
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Ūrjā asks what if energy consumption was a design parameter for the web.
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Sketching visual concepts for page and visualisation design
Sketching with code to visualise the real-time solar protocol data
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Adaptive Visualisations
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