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Design in OSS continues to be an unintentionally hidden aspect of how OSS is built. Design is often started and continued by the developers that found and maintain OSS tools until the rare opportunity when someone with experience — and interest — in design offers to take on design efforts in the OSS. This rare occurrence: either a lucky event (for most OSS projects), or a targeted investment for OSS projects that are able to allocate any of their funding budget to ‘design’.
Join Eriol Fox and Victory Brown as they discuss everything design in open source software.
About Eriol
Eriol Fox has been working as a designer for 15+ years, working in for-profits and then NGOs and open source software organisations. They have worked 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 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 teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/ 1), Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/ 1), and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/), as well as helping to host a podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)
Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.
About Victory Brown
Victory Brown has been working in the tech space for nearly five years, focusing on design research, community building, and design advocacy. She is passionate about supporting open source projects by helping new design contributors get started through writing, OS conference planning, workshops, and speaking engagements.
Victory now works at Superbloom, where she is part of a team of human-centered designers creating tools that focus on security and privacy, making the internet safer for people and communities. Alongside her work at Superbloom, she actively champions women in design and works to empower African communities to engage with open source, ensuring that diverse voices and regional perspectives are represented in global conversations about technology and design.
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