Life Cycle Analysis is how researchers measure environmental impact. The standard tool is OpenLCA. It's powerful, but tough to use, especially for new researchers and students.

We built Pristine LCA as an attempt at that gap: same functionality, much friendlier interface. We ran a few rounds of user observation and usability testing, prototyped on paper and in Figma, then built a working version on top of the OpenLCA API.

The work was submitted as a paper to CHI HCI 2023.

Read the paper (PDF)