Today we shared an update on our progress with various projects across the team, chatted about stickers, discussed the addition of a “Research” tag to the forum for future user surveys, and considered the potential impact pasting large numbers of bridge lines has on Tor’s bootstrapping speed.
== User Experience Team Meeting ==
UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1700 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.
Here are the logs from our last meeting on February 22nd:
== Useful links ==
About the UX Team:
UX repository:
UX roadmap:
UX kanban:
Team kanban:
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Tuesday February 22nd 17:00 UTC
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== What projects are we working on? ==
S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights
S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship
S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet
S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android
== Announcements ==
* Tor Browser Alpha 11.5a4 release (desktop only):
== Agenda ==
1. Announcements
2. Weekly planning
3. Check-in with user support
== Weekly planning ==
Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold**
Duncan
Last week (actual):
- Dev support for S96 (torconnect)
- Discussed process for selecting alpha features to go into stable for Tor Browser
- Reviewed & fed back on the call for participation for S101 (VPN)
- Finished the tor-qa survey
- Quarterly meetings with sponsors
- afk on Friday
This week (planned):
- afk on Monday
- Test and feed back on the most recent build for S96 (torconnect)
- Start work on additional designs for S96 (torconnect)
- Launch & distribute the tor-qa survey
- Chase feedback for user stories for S101 (VPN)
- Continue breadboards for S101 (VPN)
- More quarterly meetings with sponsors
On ice:
- Review everything currently assigned to me under "Needs Review", including the UX Research report template
Nah
Last week (actual):
- S9 survey to find human rights defenders’ challenges and needs. Status: creating questionnaire on limesurvey in spanish and english, trying to make it look better, sharing with S9 partners.
- S30 call
for participation is live! Sharing with communities in Brazil and
Mexico, and planning User Research (both for Tor and Orbot)
- S101 interviews planning. Status: creating the questionnaire on Limesurvey.
- S96: starting to research/plan our next activities
This week (planned):
- Recruit more participants for VPN interviews (S101)
- Plan and test a card sorting structure for VPN features survey (S101)
- Work on the User Research primer
- Meet and discuss User Reserch activities for the upcoming digital autodefense cicle of activities (S30)
Nicob
Last week (actual):
- Further exploration of icon concepting
- NYT new member renewal graphic
- Onion sticker re-design sketching
- Edits to partner logos for trainings page (Gus)
- SVG icon test for localization (Emmapeel)
- Started gathering similar org annual reports for research/inspiration
This week (planned):
- continued sketching/exploration of glyphs
- continue research for Comms 22 vis direction
== Open Call for User Research ==
Find out how to contribute to the UX team: