Richard Littauer
Co-Host of Sustain Open Source Design
All around entrepreneur, developer, birder, nomad, poet, sailor, linguist, writer, and runner. Always making new projects, always iterating on the old ones. I help facilitate the Sustain working groups, produce and host this and the Sustain podcasts, fund-raise for the OSI, manage the community and run the OSPO++ network, and run a small consultancy doing open source strategy and community maintenance. I founded The User Is Drunk and The User Is My Mom, two UX teardown businesses.
Richard Littauer has hosted 34 Episodes.
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Episode 52: Milan Guenther on Open Source Enterprise Design
July 9th, 2024 | 33 mins 35 secs
Milan dives into his career journey, Enterprise Design, open source tools, and the importance of uncovering enterprise misalignments.
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Episode 51: Stephen Okonkwo on OSCA, UX, and Open Source Design Leadership
March 5th, 2024 | 13 mins 42 secs
Stephen dives into enhancing user experience at OSCA and the importance of open-source design, conference planning intricacies, research, and transparency.
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Episode 50: Veethika Mishra of GitLab on designers and barriers to open source
September 12th, 2023 | 36 mins 12 secs
Veethika on Gitlab, the power of open source contributions, the importance of community engagement, and the challenges faced in integrating external designers.
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Episode 44: Isaac Zara of Flipside on building timeless brand system and guidelines
June 20th, 2023 | 37 mins 15 secs
Isaac takes us through his journey into open source, his work as a brand experience designer, his design philosophy, and how he plans to integrate storytelling into brand designs.
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Episode 42: Mike Gifford of CivicActions on Digital Accessibility
May 23rd, 2023 | 34 mins 4 secs
Mike talks about his views on sustainability, his work with open source software, and the importance of accessibility and multilingualism in technology.
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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 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!