7:7 - Responsible Web Development

Kill your darlings - The Final Step Toward a More Responsible Web

We've covered a lot - from strategy and design to backend and frontend development. Now, it’s time for the final piece: learning to let go.

Over the past few weeks, our colleague Claudia Erdem and freelance designer Daniel Kongsted Petersen have taken us on a journey through their #ResponsibleWeb series - a thoughtful mini-series published on LinkedIn, focused on building more sustainable digital products. Sometimes, being responsible means removing features you once loved. But that’s not a bad thing.

In fact, it can save energy, costs, and maintenance time - all while improving the user experience.

This is the last post in Claudia and Daniel’s Responsible Web series. But it’s the start of a new way to build websites: In this post, we dive into how you can build digital products that are not only more effective - but also better for the environment. Let’s talk about how to build greener solutions that make a real impact.

Why Test and Check Your Ideas?

Claudia and Daniel both underline the importants to test your ideas, instead of guessing if they work. This helps you build better and more responsible websites.

In Daniel post “Test early, validate and learn” he gives some effective ways to put ideas to the test:

• Talk to 5 - 10 users and ask them what they think.

• Create a simple prototype and watch how people use it.

• Try small experiments on your website to see what works better.

• Look at your website data to understand user behavior.

  
  

Doing small tests like these can save you from big mistakes later - especially in the early stages of product development.