Masterclass: Become a sustainable UX Designer - February 2026

Please note: the Masterclass consists of two parts:

First Part will take place on the 3rd of February 2026 from 5pm to 7pm CEST.

Second Part will take place on the 5th February 2026 from 5pm to 7:30pm CEST (last 30min reserved for Q&A).

Your ticket is valid for both parts.

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“It was truly inspiring for me to attend this masterclass and I recommend it to any Service Designer or UX Researcher. An evening packed with insights, practical exercises and a looooooooot of wonderful resources to explore further.”- Natalia

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Due to the success and the high demand, the Masterclass returns in January 2026. Learn how to incorporate sustainable UX practices in your daily work to create sustainable digital products based on the SUX Framework in our proven Masterclass format.

The 4,5-hour class teaches you the fundamentals and tools of Sustainable UX and enables you to start using SUX in your daily work right after the Masterclass.

The SUX Framework was developed by me over the past years based on my personal long year work in digital sustainability and Sustainable UX, my workshops, my talks and keynotes and my work on the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines.

Upon completion you’ll get a personal Sustainable UX certificate.

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Masterclass Modules:

Day 1 (26 January, 5pm-7pm):

Module 1: Sustainability and digital products

• How are digital and UX related to Sustainability

Module 2: Understand the negative impact

• What are the different negative impacts?
• How to dismantle negative impacts?
• Methods and tools (e.g.: Needs to Consequences Mapping)

Modul 3: Mapping negative Impacts

• From strategic to tactical level: breaking down negative impacts to an actionable level

Day 2 (27 January, 5pm-7:30pm)

Module 4: From understanding to solutions

• Carbon-friendly design
• Behavioral design tactics
• The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0
• Ideation
• Methods and tools (e.g: Sustainable User Journey Mapping)

Module 5: Making Sustainability Default

• How to embedd Sustainability in your (design-)processes

Module 6: Sustainable UX, business and stakeholders

• The business case of Sustainability
• Sustainability Narratives

Bonus Module: AI, Sustainability and Creativity

Optional Bonus: 30min extra for Q&A and open conversation after the Masterclass

• As a bonus, we offer an extra optional 30 minutes after the Masterclass where you can ask question or discuss about your current challenges. It is not mandatory to stay for this to get your certificate.

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What you will learn:

The SUX Framework: the practical framework for Sustainable UX that provides everything to apply sustainability to your work as a designer.

Digital Sustainability: What are the different aspects of Sustainability and how they are connected to digital products

Negative Impacts: The negative impacts of digital products and experiences and how to uncover them

Get into Action: From high-level bird view to execution and how to get from understanding to action

Tools & Framework of Sustainable UX and Digital Sustainability based on the SUX Framework

Carbon Friendly Design: Concrete techniques for carbon friendly design based on Sustainable UX and Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG 1.0)

NEW Behavioral Design: How to drive the user to make more sustainable and responsibel decisions while using our digital products.

Make it default: How to make Sustainable UX practices default in the whole design and product building process

Bonus: AI , Sustainability and Creativity: Will AI solve your problems or create new ones?

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What you will get after completion:

Tools and Resources: All tools and resources from the Masterclass will be provided afterwards including templates for all SUX frameworks and methods.

SUX Certificate: All participants who complete the Masterclass will get a personal official SUX Academy Certificate.

Private Slack Channel: All participants get access to a privat Masterclass-channel in our Slack Space to be able ask questions after the Masterclass.

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And did you know: Sustainable UX is also good for business

Customer Relationships: Incorporating sustainability in your digitale experiences becomes crucial for a good relationship to your users/customer. Customers demand sustainable products and are willing to pay higher prices for sustainable services.

Infrastructure Costs: Web Sustainability Guidelines and Sustainable UX practices help creating more effective digital solutions and thereby directly impact the infrastructure costs of your digital solutions.

Compliance and Regulations: Regulations already begin to demand more sustainable digital solutions. New green deal, CSRD, etc. You can compare it to what happens with Web Accessibility at the moment. Expect the same to happen with web/digital sustainability soon.

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What alumni from previous SUX Academy Masterclasses say:

"Loved the masterclass! Thank you Thorsten for an amazingly insightful and inspiring session. Can't wait to start putting this knowledge into practice!" - Michal

"Thanks so much for this interesting and enlightening input! I especially loved the examples and the quick wins that can already have a great impact in our work. 🙌🏼" - Nathalie, Germany

"Danke! for the incredible class. It was very helpful, informative and inspiring, time to put into practice! 👏🌿" - Camila, Uruguay

"Large parts of a product's environmental footprint are determined in the design phase 🫣. That is why Thorsten Jonas introduced us to concrete methods that enable the involvement of non-human actors and a more systemic thinking. That. Is. Full of meaning. And necessary ✨ and just the thing for a UX geek like me 🤩" - Hannah, Denmark

"On rare occasions, you come out of a training with this feeling that you've learned something you can actually apply the very next day. This was one of those. 🫶" - Thomas, Germany

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About your Lecturer:

Your lecturer is Thorsten Jonas, digital sustainability Trailblazer, Sustainable UX Designer, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host and Founder of the SUX Network.

He is one of the drivers of making sustainability default in all design processes. With his long year experience, he is guiding and training designers, design-teams and companies in crafting sustainable, responsible and ethical digital products while he is also speaking at conferences and events worldwide like Adobe MAX, Interaction Conference or World Usability Congress.

Furthermore Thorsten is serving as co-lead of the UX committee for the W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines as an invited expert in the W3C Web Sustainability Interest Group.

His passion for the outdoors and mountaineering drives his commitment to make sustainability a fundamental aspect of digital design and to advocate for responsible and ethical usage of tech for the good of every being on this planet.

About the SUX Network and the SUX Academy:

The SUX Network was founded in 2021 by a group of designers with the mission to transform UX to Sustainable UX and to make Sustainability default in the digital design process.

As part of SUX the SUX Academy was founded in 2024 to teach the fundamentals, tools and details of Sustainable UX, Digital Sustainability or the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines and how to incorporate them into your daily work. Besides Masterclasses and Courses we offer also tailored Trainings and Masterclasses for Design- and Product-Teams. Meanwhile more than 350 people finished one of our courses.