Eriol Fox

Bristol UK

Bio

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.

My Talks

Can we build and maintain Open source design systems for Open source software?

Open Source Software (OSS) is typically maintained by small groups of enthusiastic developers with growing involvement from the design community. With my work in open source design, I've been inve...

Design contributions to OSS: Learnings from the Open Design workshops project

Open Design: increasing and sustaining design contribution to open source and advocating for OSS in design, and design in OSS. Covering the history and problems we looked to solve. We’ll present th...

Designing for security and privacy: Design lessons from human rights and civic technology

Making sure all technology is safe for high risk people to use is critical to the future of private, secure and respectful design that doesn't rely on dark/deceptive design patterns and brings peop...

Designing tech tools for crisis & natural disaster relief in developed and developing countries

What makes communities strong, resilient & empowers them to feel like they are an integral & valued part of a whole? What can design & technology do to help give communities the tools they need to...

Design research and UX in humanitarian and human rights technologies

How to approach UX design research for technology/services that empower & give access to people in the global south or 'developing countries' around difficult topics like genocide, democracy, gende...

Diverse representations in design and awkward conversations with colleagues

Design & UX often pushes people that need accessible & inclusive products of experiences out of scope. Covering real-life past examples of frustrations from projects that didn't go well, ones that ...

Documentation for designers and designers making documentation

Documentation is critical for contributors understand how to contribute and users know what it is your software does, but how well is documentation designed? How do you create a space for designer...

Does experiencing and understanding abuse and trauma make me a good user experience designer?

After publishing the article 'Can experiencing and understanding abuse and trauma make me a good user experience designer?' I wanted to Dive deeper into this question. I'll be talking about how lin...

From Fine Art to UX design: What designer can learn from an art practice

I've been a designer for 10 years. Before that, I was an artist. I made installation, performance & sculpture. Perceptions of art and design are that they aren't different. Inside the design worl...

Open Source Design Contributions for your OSS project

This short workshop is aimed at getting OSS projects ready for design contributions. You'll have never asked for or set up issues ready for OSS designers. Covering the best first issues to attra...

Open Source Design Panel

This panel brings together designers from across the OSS contribution experience to discuss how design and OSS can work towards success.

The secret lives of OSS designers: Results from diary studies of designers contributing to OSS

Superbloom published findings from 10-16 week diary studies reported by designers actively working on OSS contributions. The aim, to investigate of key questions relating to design in OSS. An overv...

Using your design skills for good with Humanitarian open source

Open Source Software (OSS) typically maintained by developers are starting to understand how design improves their OSS, but struggle to know how to bring designers into the ‘open source’ world Thi...