Eriol Fox
Designer for Open Source Software, Tech Sovereignty & Human Rights
Eriol is a Designer who has worked in the design sector for over 15 years and in Open Source Software, Internet Freedom Technology, Human Rights technology for 7 years.
Eriol works on Human Rights, Internet Freedom and Censorship Circumvention technology at Convocation Research + Design and They are a collective member at Lockdown.Systems where they help make and maintain 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. They were 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 Eriol's portfolio to view their professional design work and drop me a message if you’ve got a speaking opportunity or open source opportunity you’d like to discuss.
Take a look at my PhD research on my open GitHub repository here. Eriol's 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. They are 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) Eriol started contributing as a Designer to OSS projects. Most notably at Open Source Design as a core team member/maintainer. Eriol travels to Open Source and Design conferences worldwide to speak about how design and designers can be integrated into OSS. See a Youtube playlist of conference talks.
You can find Eriol online as @erioldoesdesign on various social media and networking sites, primarily bluesky and the Mastodon Hachyderm server. Eriol sometimes stream's work and OSS contribution over on Twitch and uploads the videos over on Youtube post streams.