<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Terrific, thank you Isabela. I’d also like to get some time with you and mrphs (and others) to talk about taking the first pass process write-up and getting it on the wiki.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also: to all take a look at the below (re-posted from 29 July) and identify what’s missing and still needed. In a previous IRC talk we mentioned “pulling more discussion from IRC into the writeup” but I did not note any particular topics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is exciting stuff - let’s push it along!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Ame</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Ame Elliott <<a href="mailto:ame@simplysecure.org" class="">ame@simplysecure.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Here’s draft v1 of the process. This needs to go on the wiki, but let’s start the conversation here. What’s missing? Needs clarification/correction?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you on IRC in 3-2-1 …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Ame</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-4065b361-372f-041e-f6b2-a09fa2eb9604" class=""><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creative brief</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Initial discussion on how to write a successful brief, written up </span><a href="https://simplysecure.org/blog/creative-briefs" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the Tor Dev meeting in Valencia and growing momentum for the UX group, we came up with a </span><a href="https://storm.torproject.org/shared/A4w1l5pDZZZPU2wKiYWo1JjWoCK3b4APPfAssHctsRR" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">process for co-creating</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a Creative Brief.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In March and April 2016 we discussed on the mailing list and IRC, with two cycles of feedback requested.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After feedback and iteration, we finalized a version of the </span><a href="https://github.com/simplysecure/tor/blob/master/CreativeBriefforTorProjectStyleGuide.pdf" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creative Brief</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: some members of the UX team advocating more extensive body of work to create a full-brand architecture and corporate design. However, the team decided that this was a small first step toward that eventual goal.</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publicizing the call</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We shared it to the Tor UX mailing list. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shared the call on Open Source Design’s </span><a href="https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">github page</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the end of March.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ame reached out directly to her network of designers and design agencies via Facebook groups, designer mailing lists.</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applicants</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We received 7 applications and narrowed that down to top 4.</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evaluation criteria</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portfolio showing depth in branding and example style guides</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professional experience managing the process of working with multiple, distributed stakeholders on open-source projects, ideally on projects with large, globally distributed users</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge of open-source typography</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge of Tor and the Tor community, support of open-source values and, compfort with open-source tools, and IRC. Note: For future projects, Ame would suggest relaxing the IRC constraint and consider the importance of prior knowledge of the Tor community.</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selection</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the submissions was from an LA-based design agency, from outside the Tor and open source design communities. Ame did a video conference with them to understand more about their background, and point of view. Their portfolio was minimal and did not closely relate to the criteria above.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finalists Elio and Philip did well on all the criteria. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because Elio had previously worked with Mozilla, and had prior work specifically addressing the challenge of multiple open-source projects needing to come together under one, well-documented set of brand guidelines, we decided to make him the lead designer</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philip has been involved with the Tor UX effort, so we suggested he act as a reviewer to provide some context around the history of design at Tor.</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scope</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This initial style guide is a small step towards a complete re-design or re-brand.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elio will spend ~20 hours on the guide</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phillip will spend ~5 reviewing</span></div></li></ol><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moving forward</span></div></li><ol class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Libre Baskerville'; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Place-holder for the various drafts of things Elio has shared</span></li></ol></ol></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 16, 2016, at 10:11 PM, isabela <<a href="mailto:isabela@torproject.org" class="">isabela@torproject.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hello everyone,<br class=""><br class="">a note to remind that our next meeting will be Wednesday, August 24, at<br class="">17:00 UTC on irc channel #tor-project.<br class=""><br class="">Lets try to build an agenda for it.<br class=""><br class="">1. guidelines status update<br class="">2. release to the community status update<br class="">3. project documentation status update<br class="">4. what else?<br class=""><br class="">I will work on moving the process info that Amee did to our wiki before<br class="">the meeting, so we can have all the documentation about the project<br class="">there. And will try to start a draft of an email to tor-project<br class="">announcing the guidelines.<br class=""><br class="">I don't know if we will have time in the meeting but at some point we<br class="">should talk about discussions/sessions at our dev meeting which is<br class="">approaching!<br class=""><br class="">BTW who is confirmed to join us in Seattle in Sept? :)<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">isabela<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">PM at <a href="http://TorProject.org" class="">TorProject.org</a><br class="">gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B<br class="">@isa<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">UX mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:UX@lists.torproject.org" class="">UX@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ux<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>