Eriol is a Designer who has worked in the design sector for over 15 years and in Open Source Software and Internet Freedom Technology and Human Rights technology for 7 years.

Eriol works on Internet Freedom and Censorship Circumvention technology with Convocation Research + Design and I am a collective member at Lockdown.Systems where i make anti-surveillance technology and projects. Previously, 

Eriol worked as a Product Designer on ESPHome and Music Assistant at The Open Home Foundation and was a Senior UX/UI designer, design researcher and OSS product manager at Superbloom. I was head of design at the Open Food Network, Ushahidi and other apps, e-commerce and digital platforms for the last 15+ years.

Eriol sits on the advisory board of The Open Technology Fund, and Ethical Open Source Is a Penpot.app ambassador. 

You can check out my portfolio to view my professional design work and drop me a message if you’ve got a speaking opportunity, senior/manager design role or open source opportunity you’d like to discuss.

Take a look at my PhD research on my open GitHub repository here. My PhD thesis was centred on how Designers contribute to Humanitarian and Human Rights related Open Source Software at Open Lab Newcastle and funded by Northern Bridge Consortium.  I’m looking for a new academic institution that would be a home for this kind of research.

After discovering a love for Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS or OSS) I started contributing as a Designer to OSS projects. Most notably at Open Source Design as a core team member/maintainer. I travel to Open Source and Design conferences worldwide to speak about how design and designers can be integrated into OSS. See my Youtube playlist of conference talks.

You can find me online as @erioldoesdesign on various social media and networking sites, primarily bluesky and the Mastodon Hachyderm server. I sometimes stream work and OSS stuff over on twitch and upload the videos over on youtube

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