Eriol Fox

Eriol has been working as a designer for 15+ years working in for-profits and then NGO’s and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building, censorship circumvention OSS, Human Rights OSS tools and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at The Open Home Foundation on OSS first smart home technology.

Eriol is part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) 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.

Session Description:

Design and usability is often measured in 'return on investment' (ROI) in the proprietary and commercial world. Relying on design, UI and usability elements that increase user traffic, user clicks, user purchases, extracting value from users or making a 'frictionless' exchange online. 

The exchanges and participation in OSS is different, both as end-users, user-contributors and builders/maintainers. Can we get together in this BOF and describe the value of design, usability, user interation and ux in our OSS projects, what effects that we know or hypothesise has made and begin to define metrics for how design contributes to over all OSS health and also for community health of OSS projects.