Hello & happy new year!

Thanks to everyone who made it to yesterday’s UX Team meeting – the first one of the year. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on January 18th.

Here are the minutes from yesterday’s meeting:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html

Yesterday we discussed our change to a weekly frequency for team meetings, the addition of a weekly planning section to better communicate what we’re working on individually, Joydeep’s monthly status report for December, and our plan to set aside a few hours each month for a team reading morning.

Lastly, we continued the discussion in #tor-ux with a review of the work we did in Q3 2021 on the UX Team Roadmap.

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== 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 January 11th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html

== Useful links ==

About the UX Team:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team

UX repository:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux

UX roadmap:
https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0%3A1

UX kanban:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name[]=UX

Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team

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Tuesday January 11th 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
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name=Sponsor%209&label_name=UX

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name=Sponsor%2030&label_name=UX

S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32

== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 11.0.4 Release (desktop only):
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/

* New time and frequency for team meetings: weekly @ 1700 UTC

== Agenda ==

1. Announcements
2. Weekly planning
3. Review Joydeep's monthly status report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-January/003254.html
4. Reading morning (the one mentioned on FigJam)
5. Q4 Roadmap actualizing

== Weekly planning ==

Duncan

Last week (actual):
    - Set up a new Figma account for Tor Project UX & transferred all existing files over
    - Started experimenting with new about:tor designs for tor-browser#40752
    - Set up onboarding document for our new team-member
    - Added OKR tracker to UX Planning Board/Roadmap

This week (planned):
    - Onboard new team-member
    - Make sure the YEC is taken down
    - Tor Browser 11.0.4 launch support
    - Review and "actualize" Q4 2021 roadmap
    - Set up new team kanban
    - Ticket wrangling for torconnect
    - Draft script for tor-qa survey
    
Nah

Last week (actual):
    - getting back on track!
    - reviewing issues

This week (planned):
    - ECC meetings
    - write and review new project phase S9
    - exploring the last VPN survey for new insights and next steps S101
    - update User Research portal website
    - many 1:1 to align and plan user research for this quarter

Joydeep (championquizzer) [Community Team work]

This week (planned):
    - user support work (priority this week: users in .ru and .kz)
    - Gitlab to-do/reviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&assignee_username=championquizzer

== Open Call for User Research ==

Find out how to contribute to the UX team:
https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/

Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@torproject.org