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 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 29: Clara García Viñola of Kaleidos on building Taiga and Penpot
May 24th, 2022 | 32 mins 46 secs
Clara tells us about a design tool they are working on for everyone to use, not just designers.
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Episode 27: Jenn Kotler on Astronomical Sonification and Designing UX for Science & Open Data
April 26th, 2022 | 42 mins 35 secs
Jenn fills us on what she does at MAST, the different types of astronomical data they look at, and how she uses this data in her job to make it accessible so everyone can do amazing science.
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Episode 26: Aaron Collier of Orbit on Writing Docs and Building Design Systems
April 19th, 2022 | 41 mins 28 secs
Aaron fills us in on what he does at Orbit, the process of writing documentation and design systems, and how they get their contributors.
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Episode 24: Taís Lessa on Inclusion in the Workplace for Immigrants and Newcomers
March 22nd, 2022 | 39 mins 40 secs
Taís, a Product Design Lead at Mozilla, talks to us about her journey as a designer and her thoughts on fostering an environment encouraging people to be more themselves in open source.
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Episode 23: Heiko Tietze of the Document Foundation on Mentoring Designers
March 15th, 2022 | 34 mins 49 secs
Today, Heiko fills us in on the Document Foundation, what his job involves as a UX Mentor, and the challenges in mentoring designers in open source.
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Episode 20: Eileen Wagner on the Open Source Design network
February 1st, 2022 | 37 mins 21 secs
Eileen shares her views on the design world and the way you should approach design.
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Episode 19: Conor Okus and Christoph Ono on the Bitcoin Design Community
January 11th, 2022 | 44 mins 25 secs
Christoph Ono, a UX and digital product designer from the Bitcoin Design Community, and Conor Okus of Block, part of an initiative called Spiral (previously Square Crypto) fill us in about the Bitcoin Design Community, Bitcoin Design grants, and some challenges they had to face in starting this community.
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Episode 17: 2021 Wrap Up
December 23rd, 2021 | 26 mins 47 secs
Let's learn more about our panelists, most memorable moments, and what to look forward to on future episodes.
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Episode 16: Jérémy Landes on Type Designing
December 14th, 2021 | 31 mins 56 secs
Jérémy Landes explains what he does as a type designer, how he incorporates the open source side of it, and the process of building fonts.
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Episode 15: Jin Guo and Jinghui Cheng on UX and design in scientific OSS projects
December 10th, 2021 | 40 mins 50 secs
Jin and Jinghui go in depth about their research on scientific research code, some common problems around usability, the different research methods they are using in their studies, and how they incorporate community into their research.