FOSS Backstage 2024

Eriol Fox

Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research, open-source and technology projects.

Eriol is a part-time funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University's Open Lab looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects.

They are also part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)

Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.


Twitter

https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/

Mastodon

https://hachyderm.io/@erioldoesdesign


Session

03-05
16:40
30min
The secret lives of designers in OSS
Eriol Fox, Nimisha Vijay

Superbloom has published a findings document/report from our 16 week diary study about how designers contribute to OSS. You'll learn what designers contributing to OSS's lives are like day to day as they contribute all types of design - from visual UI, graphics and user research and accessibility.

Diversity & Inclusion
Stage Wintergarten