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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 1d

"Listen to the unfiltered inner worlds and experiences of Designers contributing to critical OSS projects in order to make your projects more accessible to designers and design contributions."

#oss #opensource #drupal #drupalconvienna #drupalcon25 #design #opensourcedesign #designers

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Me and Victory Brown are at Drupal Con Vienna this week to talk about designers in OSS!

events.drupal.org/vienna2025

Check out our session events.drupal.org/vienna2025/s... on Tuesday the 14th of October at 17:00 to 17:20 CEST.

Project repo: github.com/sprblm/Diary...

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 2d

When the D&D session goes hard. 7 hours pssssh childs play.

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to Yuki Kawabe for being my co-interviewee and a fantastic workshop partner.

Also thanks to Code for Japan (www.code4japan.org) for collaborating on this workshop and Fu-Syuan Wang and Shin Okamoto for being the other fantastic designers in OSS supporting the workshop 💐

Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 5d

✨More designers making OSS technology have fantastic user experiences ✨

#designmatterstokyo #opensource #opensourcedesign #design #community #civictech #oss #foss

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 5d

Interview at the fantastic publication unprinted (www.unprinted.design author Ozgu Ozden) about the open source design contributions to civic tech OSS projects workshop from Design Matters Tokyo 25!

www.unprinted.design/articles/des...

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 7d

It's a marathon. Not a sprint.

I don't know who else needs to hear that, but I hope someone reposts it back to me every couple of months.

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 6d

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading news.itsfoss.com/open-source-...

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

An unprecedented threat looms over open source.

news.itsfoss.com

Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 6d

Let's goooooo #penpotfest so excited;

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 8d

Fellow book readers please follow me and I'll follow you back on BookWyrm bookwyrm.social/user/eriolfox (it's OSS!)

BookWyrm

Social Reading and Reviewing

bookwyrm.social

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 8d

The “single source of truth” quietly fragments into multiple interpretations.

Great article!!

Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 8d

The real problem isn’t technical – it’s social. When teams can’t predict how something might be named, they stop trusting the system. They create their own solution instead of searching for existing ones.

When design tokens become technical debt zeroheight.com/blog/when-de...

When design tokens become technical debt - zeroheight

zeroheight.com

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to be attending penpot fest next week! Ready to hear abotu all the good work Penpot and the wider open source + design + dev community have been working on 🎉

Penpot @penpot.app · 13d

In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉

Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...

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Penpot @penpot.app · 13d

In just one week we’ll be enjoying Penpot Fest and its amazing keynotes and workshops! 🎉

Last chance to grab your ticket!
penpot.app/penpotfest/s...

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 13d

📣 TOMORROW - Oct 2 @ 10am PT -> Let’s talk about UX design at the Knowledge Exchange with 3 @superbloom.design team members: Philliph Drummond, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social , & Anh Lê

No design experience required – just an interest in the topic!

Register to receive a Zoom link: bit.ly/4gDQvm2

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koide_neko @koide-neko.bsky.social · 20d

Id24始まってまーす！仕事中はラジオ的に聞いてます。
協力者に植木さんの名前があがってる！さすが！

Jan Maarten and Daniel Henderson-Ede / Accessibility Annotations Around the World #id24 2025
www.youtube.com/live/O1Gmngp...

Jan Maarten and Daniel Henderson-Ede / Accessibility Annotations Around the World #id24 2025

YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24

www.youtube.com

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 25d

Gotta make a special stop for the queer feminist zone festival 👩‍❤️‍👩👨‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍👨💑

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 29d

Check out the open penpot file here: design.penpot.app#/view?file-i...

Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams

The open-source solution for design and prototyping

design.penpot.app

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 29d

Check out the OSS projects:

www.proj-inclusive.org
linktr.ee/0xtoban
github.com/cfj-afterpil...

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 29d

Myself, Tofus, Yuki Kawabe, Shin Okamoto and some amazing civic tech projects 'design hacking' together at such a vital design community is a huge step forward for designers finding their place in #opensourcesoftware and #civictech

opensourcedesign.net

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · 29d

An absolute joy to bring active design contributions to open source civic tech software at Design Matters Tokyo 25' in partnership with the wonderful and dedicated folks at code4japan
www.code4japan.org

#designmatters25 #designmatters

designmatters.io/tokyo/

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ready for design matters tokyo 🎉

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ya know just normal PTO vacation activities...

My partner is currently playing video games in their PJ's.

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Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social · Sep 11

Things I do on my PTO from my day-job:

Writing OSS governance background documentation and funding requests.

Developing new talks/content for design in OSS stuff.

Discussing with peeps how to do better in the domain space.

Prepping for 2026 spring conference season.

Finish civic tech books

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