Stefanie Kruse
Stefanie Kruse is a Hamburg-based product designer dedicated to building, consulting on, and advocating for responsible and sustainable digital products. She combines her educational background in business and computer science with a love for design and great user experiences and can draw from years of product management experience in sustainability-focused companies.
Today, she is working with organizations to create innovative B2C solutions that empower individuals to embrace a climate-friendly lifestyle.
reThinking Digital Products: What tech people can do for a better future.
Technology holds the key to solving our environmental and societal problems, right?
But in reality, digital products are part of the problem, from their environmental impact to promoting inequalities and wasteful behaviors in consumers. Looking into the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we can raise awareness about the unsustainable aspects of digital products.
But there is hope: a growing movement of tech professionals from designers to developers to product people are contributing to a more responsible and eco-friendly internet. In this talk, we will explore actionable ideas to make your digital products more sustainable: from ideation and business models to design and development to agile processes. You will also learn how to join the movement and where to get started with building more responsible and sustainable products.