Eriol has been working as a designer for 15+ 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. They now work as a product designer at the Open Home Foundation working on Smart Home OSS technologies.

Eriol was studying a Comp Sci PhD looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects and is looking for a new home for this research.

They are also part of the core maintainer team at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and the Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and is a host for the podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)

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