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 14: Django Skorupa on segueing into Open Source Design at Open@RIT
November 30th, 2021 | 42 mins 35 secs
Django explains how bad design keeps your community stagnated, and why he thinks design is kept separate from developers in the open source space.
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Episode 12: Abhishek Sharma on collaborating with NGOs as a designer
November 16th, 2021 | 38 mins 27 secs
Abhishek tells us about his role as Community Manager at Glific, and how listening to communities is important for designers who want to make meaningful, impactful products.
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Episode 11: Aditya Patel and Building Better Design Practices as a Product Director
October 19th, 2021 | 39 mins 37 secs
Aditya Patel, the Director of Product at HotWax Commerce, speaks about how to build better design practices, take feedback, and celebrate designers.
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Episode 7: Cristina Chumillas on Design at Drupal
September 14th, 2021 | 36 mins 16 secs
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Episode 5: Bryan Paget on Open Source Developers with Design Thinking
September 7th, 2021 | 36 mins 27 secs
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Episode 6: Gleb Sabirzyanov on Open Design and the Figma Plugin Ecosystem
August 11th, 2021 | 32 mins 47 secs
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Episode 4: Jan Dittrich and the Anthropology of Open Source Design
July 28th, 2021 | 35 mins 29 secs
Jan Dittrich, a UX Designer and Researcher, joins us to talk about their work with Wikimedia, their PhD on self-directed learning, and thoughts on open source and nerd culture.
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Episode 3: Smera Goel on Designing in the Fedora Project, Outreachy, and India
July 14th, 2021 | 32 mins 11 secs
Smera Goel joins us to talk about her work as a design intern in Outreachy, her continuing work with the Fedora Project, and on being a designer in university!
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Episode 2: Abraham Agiri and Designing as a Coder, and Coding as a Designer
June 15th, 2021 | 38 mins 53 secs
Abraham Jr. Agiri joins us to talk about how we, as designers, interface with open source in a sustainable way, how we integrate into different communities, and how we, as coders, work with other designers.
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Episode 1: What is Sustain Open Source Design? An Introduction
January 29th, 2021 | 25 mins 27 secs
The introduction podcast for Sustain Open Source Design, covering what open source design means, why it is important, who are panelists are, and how we plan to cover these topics in future episodes.