How to develop a frontend approach to eco-design: Soft Disabling
summary
Shows a frontend eco-design approach called Soft Disabling implemented for an Android app at Leboncoin: a four-month project that reduced homepage API calls (claiming ~70% reduction) by selectively disabling or degrading features to save resources without harming user experience. Covers the implementation steps, cross-team collaboration, engineering challenges, and practical rollout decisions and refinements for deploying Soft Disabling in production.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Eco-design and Soft Disabling
- 3:03Soft Disabling demo
- 4:28Tool implementation rules
- 7:29Soft Disabling algorithm
- 8:56UX design of solution
- 10:09User behavior threshold
- 11:59A/B test setup
- 13:31A/B test results
- 14:56Validation and deployment
- 17:27Soft Disabling impacts
- 20:18Eco-design rewards
- 21:44Conclusion & Q&A
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