Mitigating Harmful Designs at the Source

### Prize category

Best Contribution to the Framework

### Overview

We propose developing a Figma plugin (or a regular plugin, if that's not allowed) that uses Impact Framework to provide environmental impact assessments to UI/UX designers during the design phase. The goal is to inform designers of the potential carbon footprint of their designs _before_ those designs get shipped, while also highlighting any deceptive design patterns like infinite scroll or default newsletter opt-ins.

I think we'll need to create some type of 'carbon impact multiplier' to quantify the additional environmental costs of addictive design patterns.

The reinforcement loop of addictive designs --> higher carbon outputs --> poorer mental health outcomes could also be mentioned, although we're not sure how to include this.

### Questions to be answered

- Is this feasible and allowed? (We work in front-end dev/UX roles, with some backend knowledge)
- Any ideas on how we could map deceptive or addictive design patterns to a carbon output value?

### Have you got a project team yet?

Yes and we are now complete :)

### Project team

@sgiori11
@joakim-andersson

### Terms of Participation

- [X] I agree to the hackathon [Rules & Terms](https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/hack/wiki/Rules-and-Terms) and [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/hack/wiki/Code-of-Conduct)