Sustain Open Source Design
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
53 episodes of Sustain Open Source Design since the first episode, which aired on January 29th, 2021.
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Episode 41: Ashlyn Knox on designing Fedora's new site
May 9th, 2023 | 28 mins 18 secs
Ashlyn fills us in on the usability studies for the Fedora Project Website Revamp, using Penpot prototypes tested with real users, and how they believe a closer connection between design and dev teams is so important to improve the design in open source projects.
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Episode 40: Winfried Tilanus & Emilie Tromp on Privacy by Design
April 25th, 2023 | 36 mins 20 secs
Winfried & Emilie discuss how Privacy by Design should be approached, the importance of understanding the different perspectives on privacy, and the Samen Beter project they did.
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Episode 39: Mogashni Naidoo on Integrating UX Research into Open Source Product Management
April 11th, 2023 | 27 mins 58 secs
Mo discusses her work on Lightning Wallet, and she shares her passion for the Bitcoin Industry’s ethos of financial freedom and openness and emphasizes her work ethic of working in public.
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Episode 38: Daniel Burka and the Simple project, from Resolve to Save Lives
March 21st, 2023 | 30 mins 14 secs
We’ll hear all the cool things Daniel has been doing with the Simple project as he details how design really matters in public health projects, and how he thinks of design.
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Episode 37: Seth Hillbrand on Designing and Funding at KiCad
March 14th, 2023 | 34 mins 53 secs
Seth talks about KiCad, a schematic capture and PCB design software project, and about how they design for sustainability with their donations, services, and feature implementations.
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Episode 36: Georgia Aitkenhead, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, and Susanna Fantoni of The Alan Turing Institute on AutSPACEs
January 24th, 2023 | 40 mins 46 secs
Georgia, Bastian, and Susanna of The Alan Turing Institute talk about an open-source project they are working on called, AutSPACEs, which is a co-designed citizen science platform that investigates autism and sensory processing.
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Episode 35: Marie Nordin and Helping the Under-represented in Open Source
January 10th, 2023 | 33 mins 58 secs
Marie shares with us her passion for supporting underrepresented people into open source, especially in project management, graphic design, and mentorship, and explains how she utilized the Outreachy program, and shares advice on where to begin if you’re interested in becoming a mentor.
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Episode 34: Jason van Gumster on Animation, Design, and Open Source
January 3rd, 2023 | 34 mins 54 secs
Jason tells us about being an animation artist, the Blender community, and how he fits design and OSS together
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Episode 33: Hosts Talk: 2022 Wrap, and Looking Towards 2023
October 11th, 2022 | 39 mins 20 secs
The hosts - Richard, Eriol, Memo and Georgia - come together to talk about what they're working on for OSS Design, and what they plan on talking about next year!
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Episode 32: Chukwuka Ezeoke of Spirē on the Open Source Community Africa 2022 event and Untitled Design
July 5th, 2022 | 39 mins 5 secs
Chukwuka tells us more about Spirē, how he thinks the process could be improved with designers maintaining and contributing to open source, and he shares advice on how people from developing countries such as Nigeria, can get involved in projects that may be based in other parts of the world.
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Episode 31: Björn Balazs on Open Usability and how FLOSS can save our privacy
June 14th, 2022 | 36 mins 59 secs
Björn shares with us his perspective on where the limit of what design is, the polypoly project, and why privacy is important in tech.
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Episode 30: Isabela Presedo-Floyd of Quansight Labs on building OSS for science and on improving OSS accessibility
May 31st, 2022 | 36 mins 51 secs
Isabela shares about some of the projects she's been working on and how accessibility is the guiding compass for most of her design things.