About

Who is Eriol?

Eriol is a multi-skilled, lead/senior designer with 12+ years of experience in design, technology and human rights and has been leading projects and teams for the last 7 years. They have focused on human centred or problem-centred experience (UX) design and research projects. Problem-centred experience design acknowledges that humans are not always the key beneficiary of design, sometimes we must prioritise security, privacy, accessibility and the environment in our technology.

Eriol has been in-house at organisations and companies for their a majority of their career and has been working ‘end to end’ or ‘full-stack’ since the start of their career. This means they work across design roles, starting with discovery, research and product scoping through to sketching, wirframing, protptyping and user testing and on to detailed visual design, interaction design, content design and working through to the development ‘delivery pipe’ and then working on design quality assurance processes. They self-taught product management when they were in organisations that lacked product management roles.

They are most happy when working as part of a team of technologists in a collaborative and cross-functional way.

Eriol’s background was in Art & Design, specialising in New Media and Time-based artwork, they then self-trained into design. They took multiple-night school courses, completed work placements and freelance projects to get to the Lead Designer they are today.

Eriol is passionate about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and actively works to make technology and design more inclusive through their involvement in communities and spwaking about ‘Diversity in Design’.

Eriol is currently studying 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 and human rights focused open source software projects. Eriol is available for design consultation and contract work and makes accommodations for projects that are for social good, human rights advocacy and open source software.

Of the various volunteer and open source initiatives that Eriol is involved in the most recent are:

• Helping keep the community active and maintained at Open Source Design.
• Worked specifically on a series of Trauma and design events at Human Rights Centred Design Community.
• Part of Sustaining Design & UX working group where we also publish a podcast.
• Part of the committee at Bristol Pride working on decor and creative community engagement.
• Speaking at various tech and design conferences. Watch videos on YouTube here and read slides on Notist here.

These projects have wrapped or Eriol is no longer involved in:

• Helping run Tech for Good South West.
• Part of the design team at Mutualaid.world.
• Open Source Designer at Foss Responders.
• Fuse Jam, running inclusive game creation events
• Running Pride game jam see the first events games here and the second events games here.
• Also helping the community grow at Open IDEO London chapter.

Interested in my professional credentials?

See what OSS I’m contributing to over at GitHub

Check out my linked in profile

Or view my CV as a markdown text file

You can contact me directly on Mastodon or email: erioldoesdesign@gmail.com

Want to know a bit more about the person behind the designer?

I love design but I’m also rather talkative about other things such as:

• Table Top RPGS like Dungeons & Dragons
• Video Games
• End of life technology
• Cartoons and Comics
• Feminism & the feminist internet
• LGBTQIA+ Rights
• Accessibility
• Psychology & Neuroscience
• Post-Rock and Chiptune music
• Environmental sustainability
• Immigration & Refugee Rights