2024-03-05 –, Stage Wintergarten
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.
We will cover the main topics that we found were important for designers in OSS and OSS from the diary studies. These include:
- How designers decide to contribute to OSS
- Communication and collaboration with developers
- How designers measure design success in OSS
- Processes and tools used by designers in OSS
- What states designers would like to leave OSS in after they finish contributing
Along with this data we'll present Superbloom's recommendations on how to address the challenges raised by our diary study in OSS
We'll also outline and offer up how we structured this study and our future hopes for research into design in OSS.
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.
Nimisha is a UX designer originally from India, and currently based in Berlin. With a background in engineering, she ventured into design as a contributor to the open source collaboration platform Nextcloud. She soon transitioned into a full time UX designer and spends her time there working with the open source community to build a better internet. Nimisha also coaches social impact and open source projects at Superbloom, and is a core member of the Open Source Design collective, where she moderates forums, organises events, and studies the fascinating relationship between design and open source. Nimisha believes in privacy, agency, and control over your life on the internet and is fascinated by the role of open source in creating a kinder world.