Hello friend, I'm Eriol Fox! my pronouns are they/them 🦊
Find my website portfolio of design work here: https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/
🤔 I’m currently...
- Working
Part-timeFull-time at simplysecure.org where I do design and product management for OSS specifically Hypha and A Dev's guide to... - Doing a PhD in Computer Science at Newcastle univeristy with support from Northern Bridge fund looking at how designers participate in humanitarian open source software projects. See the open research in the github repo.
- Helping keep the community going at Open Source Design
- Participating in Human Rights Centred Design Community
- Part of Sustaining Design & UX working group including our podcast SOS Design
- Helping the community grow at Open IDEO London chapter
- Speaking at Various tech and design conferences
- Mentoring two(+) early career designers! Via private mentoring and ADP List
🗝️ I was part of...
- Leading UX and Product Design at Open Food Network
- Design team at Ushahidi
- Open Source Designer at Foss Responders
- Decor and game jam co-ordinator at Bristol Pride
- Part of the design team at Mutualaid.world
📚 I’m learning...
- Better collaboration with dev + design in OSS
- FE coding skills
- Service design in the OSS and human rights tech space
- History and community of OSS
- Docker and other more dev processes
🐝 I’m looking people to collaborate with me on...
- A OSS designer focus project called Open Design which started at Ushahidi
- OSS projects that want to grow their design maturity
- A mentoring partnership or co-op in OSS design for early career designers
🆘 I’m looking for help with...
- A mentoring partnership or co-op in OSS design for early career designers
- Learning FE development (so I can contribute to OSS more from code perspectives)
- Support in helping with various designer communities
📟 Ask me about...
Speaking at events and conferences on the following topics:
- Designing for humanitarian tech, tech for good and NGO’s
- Open Source Design, Design in the OSS space and Design documentation
- UX design
- In-house design teams
- Diversity in design
- Designing experiences for the terminally ill and their carers
📫 How to reach me...
- On twitter @erioldoesdesign
- On email erioldoesdesign@gmail.com
- My website erioldoesdesign.com
Fun facts...
- I grew up in a pub but I don't drink!
🍻 - I love TTRPGS (table top role playing games) like Dungeons and Dragons. I play 1+ games per week!
🐉 - I love video games and its one of my only 'vices'. I literally sunk 2 weeks of gameplay into my first FF7 run
🎮 - I'm low key a practicing witch but haven't found a coven yet
🧹 - I like boats
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