It is with great pleasure that we present to you Tjikko Studio. We make beautiful websites and platforms with minimal environmental impact. Our vision is to harmonise the web usage and information access needs of today with the critical eco-conscious principles of digital sobriety.
1/3. Why digital sobriety?
🙋♀️ 1.1 Why?
According to The Shift Project (Lean ICT, page 18, Fig. 3), digital technology accounts for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions and could increase to 8% within 4 years (2025). As indicated on the HTTP Archive website, between 2015 and 2020, the average footprint of web pages increased by 65% on computers and 152% on mobile devices. With the arrival of 5G, this trend will only accelerate. And that's a problem!
💡1.2 The advantages of sobriety for you
Digital sobriety advocates a reduction in the footprint of websites and platforms to reduce the amount of energy and hardware required. Not only does this significantly reduce environmental impact while minimizing server costs, it also improves user experience by minimising wait times.
☝️ 1.3 No limitations
Even large and involved web projects can be designed using digitally sober design guidelines. In other words, tools like Wordpress can elegantly handle websites with many dozens of pages and articles.
The bulk of the work involves putting in place the right development tools, the design, the code and the optimization of assets (images, videos, fonts). The tools are selected according to the needs of the projects.
Here are five examples of well-designed digitally sober websites
Wholegrain Digital
0.30g CO2/page viewRed-Inc
0.23g CO2/page viewRiverford Organic
0.50g CO2/page viewRights4Children
0.14g CO2/page viewÉcotable
0.34g CO2/page view
💁♂️ 1.4 Your platform
Check out websitecarbon.com to see what your environmental impact is (emissions per page view). We are happy to work with you to optimise your web site!
2/3. About us
🧑🚀 2.1 The team
Catherine Desrochers - UI Design and development
Pierre de Gourcy - UX Design, user research and product management
Mikaël Héroux-Vaillancourt & Nicolas Benjamin - Data science, AI, open innovation, and business development
💼 2.2 Our service offering
Strategic digital product development
Audit, research and UX Design
Interface design
Web and mobile development
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Implementation of methodologies, platforms and work tools
👉 2.3 Our website
Developed entirely internally on CMS Kirby, our site is (and will be) maximally optimised (only 70KB downloaded for the front page) to reduce environmental impact.
🌲 2.4 Our name
TJIKKO is one of the oldest trees on the planet. It represents for us the resilience of life over deep time. The name Tjikko represents for us this need to build projects that will contribute to the resilience of our environment for a long time to come. (Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko)
3/3. More information
Shift Project report on the environmental impact of digital technology.
https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/lean-ict-our-new-report/La vidéo en ligne, compatible avec une sobriété numérique? – Maxime Efoui-Hess
Plusieurs autres sujets, tels que l'impact global de l'internet, sont traités et vulgarisés dans cette vidéo.
youtube.com/watch?v=YWHzwUjWQhoGuide de conversion numérique au low tech – Gauthier Roussilhe
gauthierroussilhe.com/fr/posts/convert-low-techArticle on climate change by Tomorrow
tmrow.com/climatechangePrésentation simplifiée et complète par Magelan en France
magelan.tech/ressources/strategie-climat-presentation