The digital world is not as foreign as one might think to actions in favor of the environment. So much so that today we talk about web eco-design, which applies to all daily actions, infrastructure management, software, etc. In fact, it is thanks to web eco-design that some companies have eco-responsible websites!
Web eco-design: what exactly is it?
Eco-design, on a global scale, entails predicting a product's or service's whole life cycle. Until recently, it was common practice to concentrate on and stop at the creation of the product or service, regardless of the processes, materials, or other factors used.
Everything is changing! Far from being a fad, eco-design is increasingly becoming a methodology used and applied by a wide range of businesses, whether they provide goods or services.
When it comes to web eco-design, it can be expressed in a variety of ways. Discover, for example, the Esokia Madagascar team's involvement in a reforestation project in the commune of Analamanga!
This change in the way we think and act is a necessity, an important issue given the current environmental context. At Esokia the decision was easy: why persevere in harmful habits when there is a tangible alternative, such as web eco-design? From now on, our UI design specialists draw their inspiration from the dark mode, we carry out constant awareness actions for our employees, for example, to limit our energy consumption during the night.
What does web eco-design bring to IT development?
The three pillars of web eco-design are information, reflection, and action. The corporation actively engages in the fight to save the world by publicly stating areas for improvement and then taking action. How does one go about becoming an IT development expert? By redesigning the company's software and hardware systems!
By optimizing the use of equipment
Essential in the production of waste and CO2, computer hardware is one of the resources whose optimization must be encouraged in the framework of web eco-design. The virtualization of servers is a concrete answer, easy to implement, which reduces costs even more.
Optimizing the use of the software environment
Everything can be optimized in a software environment. Here are the points on which the company can work in a web eco-design approach:
- The design: functional - graphic - technical ;
- Templating: HTML - fonts - images - CSS ;
- The client code : JavaScript;
- The Document Object Model: animations - data exchange ;
- The server code: design - CMS - application server - databases ;
- Hosting: resources and contents - physical infrastructures - software infrastructures, caches ;
- Content: documents - e-mails - sounds - texts - videos.
Web eco-design does not lack resources to reduce the ecological impact, but also to allow the company to create simple and efficient processes! It's time to get digital, but not just any digitalization will do. It must now actively participate in a movement that does not necessitate a full change in the company's operational paradigm. A few well-thought-out choices are more than enough!
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