<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="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in October.<br class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes: <br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.html</a><div class=""><br class="">Today we reviewed the script for the UX team’s upcoming VPN user survey, which will help us determine which VPNs the community use most, why they use a VPN, and how it fits into their browsing experience. Lastly, we also discussed the August 2021 user feedback report.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== Monthly User Experience Team Meeting ==<br class=""> <br class="">Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. <br class=""><br class="">The next meeting will be held on Tuesday October 5th at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. <br class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:<br class=""><br class="">September 7th:<br class=""><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.html</a></div><div class=""><br class="">August 3rd:<br class=""><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-08-03-13.59.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-08-03-13.59.log.html</a></div><div class=""><br class="">July 13th:<br class=""><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-13-14.00.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-13-14.00.log.html</a></div><div class=""><br class="">June 8th:<br class=""><a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-08-14.00.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-08-14.00.log.html</a></div><div class=""><br class="">--------------------------<br class="">Tuesday September 7th 14:00 UTC<br class="">--------------------------<br class=""> <br class="">== What projects are we working on? ==<br class=""> <br class=""><b class="">S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights</b></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%209&label_name%5B%5D=UX" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship</b></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%2030&label_name%5B%5D=UX" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX</a></div><br class=""><b class="">S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet</b></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24</a></div><br class=""><b class="">S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)</b></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20103" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%20103</a></div><br class="">== Announcements ==<br class=""><br class="">* Tor Browser 10.5.5 Release: <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1055" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1055</a></div><div class=""><br class="">* Tor Browser Alpha 11.0a5 Release: <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a5" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a5</a></div><div class=""><br class="">* Tor Browser Alpha 11.0a6 Release (Android only): <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a6" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a6</a></div><div class=""><br class="">* Tails 4.22 Release: <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-422" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-422</a></div><div class=""><br class="">* V2 Onion Services deprecation: <a href="https://status.torproject.org/issues/2021-05-6-v2-deprecation/" class="">https://status.torproject.org/issues/2021-05-6-v2-deprecation/</a></div><div class=""> <br class="">== Agenda ==<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">1. VPN user survey:</b><br class=""> <br class=""> - Move "Why do you use a VPN" question earier in the branch/thread<br class=""> - How device-agnostic vs. Android-specific should the survey be?<br class=""> - If device-agnostic, include full selection of web-browsers and VPN providers<br class=""> - If Android specific, feature very explicit wording explaining this<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">2. User Feedback Report – August 2021:</b> <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-September/003177.html" class="">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-September/003177.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> - 9 reports of confusion regarding the V2 deprecation warning: are these users on older versions of TB (and as such still see the banner on <a href="about:tor" class="">about:tor</a>), or do these reports pertain to the V2 deprecation error screen itself?<br class=""></div><br class="">== Open Call for User Research ==<br class=""><br class="">Find out how to contribute to the UX team: <a href="https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/" class="">https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/</a></div><div class=""><br class="">Thanks everyone!<br class=""><br class="">***<br class=""><br class="">Duncan Larsen-Russell<br class="">Product Manager & UX Team Lead<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:duncan@torproject.org" class="">duncan@torproject.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>