Creating for the web or mobile device can provide many opportunities to connect, educate, and mobilize. However, it is important to remember that just because you aren’t using paper, that UI/UX work does still have a negative environmental and social impact.

To create going forward means that we have to reduce our impact and also design to renourish our planet. It means improving our air, water, and land, and then sustaining that progress. The Earth is as much a stakeholder in our design projects as our clients.

Beyond your professional design life, there is a lot you can do in your public and personal life to improve the world. If you live in a democracy, vote. Vote specifically to uplift your value system in combination with improving the greater good for the rest of us.