Climate Café: Sustainable Design

✨ Welcome to our Climate Café on sustainable design!
From physical products to digital services, design shapes how resources are used, how long things last, and how people behave. But as products and platforms grow more complex, a key question remains: How can design actively reduce environmental impact instead of reinforcing overconsumption?

This Climate Café panel explores sustainable design across physical and digital worlds, bringing together perspectives from Ecodesign and Sustainable UX. While Ecodesign addresses materials, production, and product lifecycles, Sustainable UX focuses on interfaces, user behavior, and digital systems — and how design choices influence energy use, accessibility, and long-term impact.

Sustainability doesn’t happen only in factories or supply chains. It also happens in user flows, defaults, interactions, and the everyday decisions shaped by design. This panel looks at sustainability as a systemic design responsibility, spanning materials, interfaces, and behavior.

Why attend?
✅ Understand how design decisions influence environmental impact across physical and digital products
✅ Learn how Sustainable UX goes beyond usability to address energy efficiency, inclusion, and responsible behavior
✅ Join a critical discussion on the role of designers in shaping sustainable systems

What you’ll learn

✨ The relationship between Ecodesign, Sustainable UX, and sustainability outcomes
✨ How interfaces and user flows can encourage more conscious, efficient use
✨ Ethical questions around nudging, responsibility, and behavior change
✨ Where sustainability really starts — in materials, interfaces, or systems

Our Speakers:

• Monika Schirmeier is a UX/UI designer and author of the book ‘Sustainable UX’, focusing on accessible and environmentally responsible digital experiences. With a background in communication design, she advocates for human-centered UX that supports both people and the planet
• Thorsten Jonas is a digital consultant, speaker, founder of the SUX Network and the SUX Academy, podcast host and co-author of the Web Sustainability Guidelines

Save the Date

📅 January 15, 2026

📍 TUM Think Tank, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1, 80333 München

🌐 Hybrid Format - Join us in person or via the online link: https://meet.google.com/yey-smyf-btx

Info: Relaxed arrival, and pre-event networking

Info: Welcome & Introduction by GSM, Insightful Talks by Industry Experts, and Engaging Q&A Session

Info: Mingle with fellow professionals, speakers, and industry leaders

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

TUM Think Tank, Richard-Wagner-Straße 1, München, Germany

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