Eriol Fox

Senior Designer, Researcher and Product Manager * they/them

Eriol is a ‘generalist’ senior designer with 10+ years of experience in design, technology and human rights and has been leading projects and teams for the last 5. Their bachelor’s degree was in Time-based media, where they explored the nature of communicating digitally, personal information exchange and vulnerability in the early 2000s. They then pivoted into a design career while doing volunteer community work in Cardiff UK across Environmental, Education, Asylum Seeker and Arts issues and gained their masters in Visual Communication at the University of South Wales. Eriol has worked in insurance, finance, legal, housing and family tech sectors before moving into the open-source and human rights as a designer. They are most happy when working as part of a team of designers, developers and product folks with a focus on collaboration and cross-function conversation and appreciation.

They are passionate about intersectional inclusion and actively works to make tech and design more inclusive through their talk ‘Diversity in Design’ and also ensuring design is ’trauma informed’ through their talk ‘UX research and Ethnographic design for humanitarian technology’. Eriol is also part of a number of communities including Open Source Design, Sustain OSS Design & UX Working group and their local Pride festival committee.

Eriol is currently studying part-time for a PhD in Computer Science at Newcastle University’s Open Lab the research is funded by Northern Bridge and is around how designers get involved in humanitarian focused open source software projects.

To schedule a coaching session with Eriol Fox please send an email to [email protected].

eriol's recent work

Why Defining Gender Diversity Matters to Your Brand — and the Challenges You May Face

At Superbloom, clients often are curious about audience and how to reach people beyond the usual suspect for an app or tool. Most recently, we were approached by a client who asked a vital question with real implications: How can our tool and brand better appeal to marginalized genders and identities? It's a question more organizations should be asking — especially those building tools meant to empower or protect users, such as privacy-focused software. But as simple as the question sounds, answering it—and acting on it—requires a deliberate, often uncomfortable reckoning.

Report Launch:Design for Internet Shutdowns in Taiwan. Taxi Drivers, Satellites, and Tech: The Surprising Heroes in Taiwan's Fight Against Internet Shutdowns

Superbloom is delighted to launch its report, resources, documentation and open source artworks focussing on the Design for internet shutdowns OSS technology workshops at COSCUP 2023. This report has insights into how designers practice in OSS, how Taiwanese and South East Asian citizens view critical internet shutdowns and censorship circumvention topics and a framework for running similar workshops for OSS anywhere in the world.

182 Days To Create A Prototype

They have an idea. They have programming skills. And now they have 182 days to create a prototype. This is the Prototype Fund, a German government program to support open-source projects. Superbloom has been providing support for the teams on “everything but code” since 2018 – from UX design to fundraising and everything in between. This blog post is for Prototype Fund teams, and really, it’s for anyone hoping to do a lot on a development project in a short time. Here’s how you make the most of 182 days!

Design Contributions to OSS at COSCUP 2024