<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Hello,</span><br class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again on January 11th, with an aim to resume <hopefully shorter> weekly team meetings thereafter.</span><div class=""><br class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><span class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Here are the minutes:</span><br class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html</a><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class="">Today we discussed Tor Browser 11.0.1 for desktop's release and ongoing user support, shared an update on the UX Team’s search for a Brand Designer, listed some ways we can improve weekly project management within the team, and discussed the need to update our onboarding materials for volunteer user researchers.</div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">***</div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><div id="magicdomid2" class="ace-line"><span class="">== Monthly User Experience Team Meeting ==</span></div><div id="magicdomid3" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid4" class="ace-line"><span class="">Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. </span></div><div id="magicdomid5" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid469" class="ace-line"><span class="">The next meeting will be held on </span><span class="b"><b class="">Tuesday </b></span><span class="b author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><b class="">January</b></span><span class="b"><b class=""> </b></span><span class="b author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><b class="">11</b></span><span class="b"><b class="">th at 1400 UTC</b></span><span class=""> in #tor-meeting on OFTC.</span></div><div id="magicdomid7" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid8" class="ace-line"><span class="">Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:</span></div><div id="magicdomid409" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid444" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">December 7th:</span></div><div id="magicdomid448" class="ace-line"><span class="url author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid9" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid10" class="ace-line"><span class="">Novemebr 9th:</span></div><div id="magicdomid11" class="ace-line"><span class=" url"><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid12" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid13" class="ace-line"><span class="">October 12th:</span></div><div id="magicdomid450" class="ace-line"><span class=" url"><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log.html</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid18" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid19" class="ace-line"><span class="b"><b class="">--------------------------</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid460" class="ace-line"><span class="b"><b class="">Tuesday </b></span><span class="b author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><b class="">December</b></span><span class="b"><b class=""> 7</b></span><span class="b"><b class="">th 14:00 UTC</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid21" class="ace-line"><span class="b"><b class="">--------------------------</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid22" class="ace-line"><span class=""> </span></div><div id="magicdomid23" class="ace-line"><span class="">== What projects are we working on? ==</span></div><div id="magicdomid24" class="ace-line"><span class=""> </span></div><div id="magicdomid25" class="ace-line"><span class="">S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights</span></div><div id="magicdomid25" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid25" class="ace-line"><span class=" url"><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name</a></span><span class="">[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX</span></div><div id="magicdomid27" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid28" class="ace-line"><span class="">S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship</span></div><div id="magicdomid28" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid28" class="ace-line"><span class=" url"><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name</a></span><span class="">[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX</span></div><div id="magicdomid30" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid31" class="ace-line"><span class="">S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet</span></div><div id="magicdomid31" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid31" class="ace-line"><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24</a></div><div id="magicdomid33" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid34" class="ace-line"><span class="">S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android</span></div><div id="magicdomid34" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid34" class="ace-line"><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32</a></div><div id="magicdomid36" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid37" class="ace-line"><span class="">== Announcements ==</span></div><div id="magicdomid38" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid39" class="ace-line"><span class="">* Tor Browser 11.0.1 Release (desktop only):</span><span class=""> </span><span class=" url"><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid41" class="ace-line"><span class=""> </span></div><div id="magicdomid42" class="ace-line"><span class="">== Agenda ==</span></div><div id="magicdomid43" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid44" class="ace-line"><span class=""><b class="">1. Tor Browser 11 post-launch update</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid44" class="ace-line"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="magicdomid44" class="ace-line"><span class="">Forum thread here: </span><span class=" url"><a href="https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid47" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid48" class="ace-line"><span class=""><b class="">2. Brand Designer hiring update</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid48" class="ace-line"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="magicdomid48" class="ace-line"><span class="">Job post here: </span><span class=" url"><a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid51" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line"><span class=""><b class="">3. UX Team Project Management – how can we improve it?</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line"><span class="">Roadmap & planning board: </span><span class=" url"><a href="https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0:1" class="">https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0%3A1</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line"><span class="">UX Kanban: </span><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=✓&label_name=UX" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name<span class="">=UX</span></a></div><div id="magicdomid72" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid259" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">We decided to:</span></div><div id="magicdomid92" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"> </span></div><div id="magicdomid160" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"> - Restart weekly team meetings in January (at the same timeslot?)</span></div><div id="magicdomid260" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"> - Begin each team meeting with our todolists and a mini-ticket triage</span></div><div id="magicdomid378" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"> - Consider a separate label for UX team work (distinct from tpo UX issues) or otherwise optimize the UX kanban</span></div><div id="magicdomid56" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid67" class="ace-line"><b class=""><span class="">4. </span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z">Create research plan for volunteers</span></b></div><div id="magicdomid67" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid67" class="ace-line"><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51</a></div><div id="magicdomid67" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">Todo list:</span></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><br class=""></span></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- C</span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z">reate a</span><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj"> </span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z">n</span><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">ew</span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z"> onboarding process </span><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">for</span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z"> volunteers</span></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Include two new research plans (one for desktop, one for mobile)</div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">S</span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z">end it to the mailing list</span></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span class="author-a-4z68zz72zvz70z96g19qpz85zdrj">Include an o</span><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z">pen floor to share findings during the weekly meetings</span></div><div id="magicdomid495" class="ace-line"><span class="author-a-z84zz122zz122zz79zz67zgdkltaz68z7z89zz89zz89z"><br class=""></span></div><div id="magicdomid58" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid59" class="ace-line"><span class="">== Open Call for User Research ==</span></div><div id="magicdomid60" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid61" class="ace-line"><span class="">Find out how to contribute to the UX team: </span><span class=" url"><a href="https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid62" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid62" class="ace-line"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid62" class="ace-line"><span class="">Thanks everyone!</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">***</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Duncan Larsen-Russell</span><br class=""><span class="">Product Manager & UX Team Lead</span><br class=""><br class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><a href="mailto:duncan@torproject.org" class="">duncan@torproject.org</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>