Thinking about sustainable design

Responsibility in design and maintenance

Reduce unnecessary resources, explain facts and permissions and support varied devices and input methods. These are working principles rather than certification claims.

Next: Prepare a workable project brief

Download OXOAK worksheets for briefs, content, platform selection and acceptance. Edit locally; examples illustrate the format and are not customer records.

Prepare a workable project brief

Reduce unnecessary resources, explain facts and permissions and support varied devices and input methods. These are working principles rather than certification claims.

what is web accessibility

Establish material and ownership, then check the working page.

Support and maintenance

Deliver component and account inventories, recovery procedures, support boundaries and update records. Agree response times and third-party costs within the scope.

Privacy

Establish material and ownership, then check the working page.

Separating responsible-business aims from certification

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Reviewing responsible-business practices

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Reviewing responsible-business practices

Separate commitments, completed actions and supporting evidence. Describe practices without claiming certifications that have not been supplied.

Reviewing responsible-business practices
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Keeping team wellbeing activities voluntary

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Keeping team wellbeing activities voluntary

Accommodate different abilities, schedules and privacy preferences. Avoid mandatory personal-data disclosure or promises about individual health outcomes.

Keeping team wellbeing activities voluntary
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Building an evidence-based employer profile

Describe work practices, applications and feedback concretely. Verify certification validity rather than adopting a badge visible in an image.

Building an evidence-based employer profile
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Working from anywhere

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Working from anywhere

Check connectivity, devices, access and hours and keep shared records. Distributed work should not scatter sensitive files across unmanaged devices.

Working from anywhere
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Our social contract

Explain channels and confirmation at kickoff and refer to the agreement during disagreements. Review whether it still matches real work.

Our social contract
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Designing fair participation in a charity challenge

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Designing fair participation in a charity challenge

Offer activity, communication or volunteer participation and optional public results. Keep support records separate from exercise data.

Designing fair participation in a charity challenge
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Making project coaching useful

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Making project coaching useful

Set a learning goal around real work and schedule demonstration, practice and feedback. Turn coaching notes into a checklist for completing the next task independently.

Making project coaching useful
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Maintaining continuity in remote collaboration

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Maintaining continuity in remote collaboration

Keep decisions and progress in shared records and document changes after meetings. Absent members should be able to identify next steps without reconstructing chat history.

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Debunking the myths of remote work

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Debunking the myths of remote work

Compare delivery quality, waiting time and clarity rather than using office attendance as the only measure. Identify work that suits asynchronous communication and reduce unnecessary meetings.

Debunking the myths of remote work
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Explain the business clearly and give every visit a direction.

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Making charity-event responsibilities clear

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Making charity-event responsibilities clear

Name the organiser, eligibility, venue or dietary constraints and contact route. Close registration after the event while retaining information to prevent invalid applications.

Making charity-event responsibilities clear
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Defining a community programme on a website

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Defining a community programme on a website

Separate intentions, scheduled work and completed actions. Keep eligibility and contacts current and avoid unconfirmed partner marks.

Defining a community programme on a website
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Recording the outcome of a charity campaign

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Recording the outcome of a charity campaign

Keep participation, received funds and expenditure evidence separate. Check the reporting date and duplicates before publishing figures; registrations are not donations received.

Recording the outcome of a charity campaign
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Designing participation in an online charity event

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Designing participation in an online charity event

Place participation rules, fund use and closing dates near registration. Explain success and next steps on confirmation so people do not resubmit or miss essential updates.

Designing participation in an online charity event
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Organising information across community activities

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Organising information across community activities

Record dates, purposes and participation separately before summarising outcomes. Use photos and participant details within permission boundaries.

Organising information across community activities
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Protecting privacy in community-support stories

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Protecting privacy in community-support stories

Verify permission and minimise identifying sensitive details. Focus on the organisation’s work rather than using personal hardship for promotion.

Protecting privacy in community-support stories
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Distinguishing sponsorship from recognition

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Distinguishing sponsorship from recognition

Distinguish organising, sponsoring, entering and winning and verify logo permission. Participation is not certification or a favourable judging outcome.

Distinguishing sponsorship from recognition
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Showing both the purpose and limits of innovation

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Showing both the purpose and limits of innovation

Structure the introduction around users, flow, evidence and limitations. Exclude unsupported market results and recognition.

Showing both the purpose and limits of innovation
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Designing an innovation submission form

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Designing an innovation submission form

Collect only eligibility and review information and provide a preparation checklist. Confirm submission and explain how corrections can be requested.

Designing an innovation submission form
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Reviewing evidence of technical innovation

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Reviewing evidence of technical innovation

Ask for a problem definition, working prototype and validation records. Evaluate demonstration quality separately from dependable operation and avoid unverified business results.

Reviewing evidence of technical innovation
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Explaining participation in volunteer activities

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Explaining participation in volunteer activities

State ownership, timing, tasks and safety arrangements with an option not to participate. Publish leave or benefit commitments only when confirmed.

Explaining participation in volunteer activities
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Writing a grounded volunteering story

Confirm accounts and photo permissions with participants. Prioritise the organisation’s needs and exclude unsupported impact figures.

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Respecting ownership in cultural content

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Respecting ownership in cultural content

Confirm who supplied names, images and accounts and what permissions apply. Invite relevant contributors to review community narratives.

Respecting ownership in cultural content
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Project video cover

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Writing bounded environmental statements

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Writing bounded environmental statements

State the subject, period and method, distinguishing reduction from offsetting. Do not present unverified results as certification conclusions.

Writing bounded environmental statements
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Infographic: Australia’s Digital Carbon Footprint

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Infographic: Australia’s Digital Carbon Footprint

Inventory image, video, font and third-party script sizes and load frequency. Repeat measurements under the same conditions instead of equating fewer files with verified emissions reductions.

Infographic: Australia’s Digital Carbon Footprint
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Reducing your carbon footprint in the home office

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Reducing your carbon footprint in the home office

Inventory idle devices, repeated downloads and unnecessary video work. Measure environmental effects rather than presenting habits as verified reductions.

Reducing your carbon footprint in the home office
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Recording a planting activity with clear scope

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Recording a planting activity with clear scope

Verify locations, counts, execution records and maintenance. Do not convert planting counts into unmeasured emissions claims.

Recording a planting activity with clear scope
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Recording evidence for environmental goals

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Recording evidence for environmental goals

Define scope and period before collecting activity data. Record reductions, substitutions and offsets separately without extending a limited result to an entire organisation.

Recording evidence for environmental goals
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Offsetting our carbon footprint in Bali

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Offsetting our carbon footprint in Bali

Preserve project provenance, periods and associated activity data. Describe direct resource reductions separately from other evidenced measures.

Offsetting our carbon footprint in Bali
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How to reduce your website’s carbon footprint

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How to reduce your website’s carbon footprint

Compress images, remove unused scripts and reduce automatic video loading. Retest on the same device to ensure useful information remains available.

How to reduce your website’s carbon footprint
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