What makes a good website? Ask a designer and they might talk about
established principles for building intuitive, aesthetic, accessible sites.
Keeping aside individual user experiences, if we a take the whole of the web
into account, particularly its global energy consumption, another metric
becomes apparent. What is the energy cost of a webpage whizzing past the
cables, criss-crossing the planet, going from servers to clients?
Ūrjā asks what if energy consumption was a design parameter for the web.
Sketching visual concepts for page and visualisation design
Sketching with code to visualise the real-time solar protocol data