Company of Biologists carbon calculator
The Company of Biologists wanted academic event organisers to see a meeting’s carbon footprint in a few minutes, and leave with practical ways to reduce it.
Every step, in order
The journey is linear, with no branching, so we could design every screen from the first question through to the report.
Most of those screens look quiet on purpose. The work sits underneath: the order of the questions, how the form talks back, which icons earn their place, and whether it still makes sense if you cannot rely on the pictures. Accessibility was part of that, not a polish pass.
Mobile
Most of their audience is on a desktop, which is unusual. We still designed mobile-first. The budget did not stretch to a full set of mobile visuals, so we produced enough to show the client and JLS that the calculator had to work on a phone as well as a laptop.
In use
The calculator is live on their sustainability hub. Organisers can work through an event in a few minutes, see a carbon estimate, and test what happens if they change the plan. The last screen is the point of the job: not a number on its own, but a way to run the next meeting with a lighter footprint.