Hello
tor,
I
wrapped the last two months here, so this is quite long.
We
joined Mozilla during All Hands in Orlando. We had insightful
conversations about privacy, users and security and privacy
settings.
We
reached a consensus about the next version of our Security
Settings. With this iteration, we are trying to balance security
and usability and a
better
understanding about what each security level trade-off is for
users as well. The latest prototype allows clicks here:
Dunqan,
an advocate designer, worked on the Onboarding
to introduce our new Security Settings to users. This iteration
will allow us to explain to users how security settings work and
also to fix two bugs from the previous version. You can see it
in action here:
Tor
Browser new icon implementation reached our alphas and will see
the light during our stable release in TB85. Since you were part
of this work, you can sneak peek how TB will look next:
Wanda
Arca, a designer from Argentina, made an animated version of the
new TB icon, you can enjoy it here:
The
second alpha for Tor Browser for Android was released, and we
are working towards next sprint, TBA-a3. We want to offer users
a simple way to connect to the tor network and also enable
censored users to decide to connect via bridges if it is needed.
Some of this work is still in progress here:
Elio
and OONI folks are working on the new version of OONI Explorer.
We iterated over the Measurement Result pages to match the
concept and the layout with the recently release OONI Probe, and
we are working on Country pages right now. You can see the work
in progress here:
We
are planning to run usability testing in January for the new
OONI Explorer Country pages. If you are a researcher or someone
who use OONI Explorer a lot, we want to hear your feedback of
what we are building!
We
joined forces with the network team to allow users to run
Snowflake in more diverse ways. One of those ways will be a
browser web extension. We are working on it and will be part of
a huge 2019 milestone that aims to help censored users to reach
the Internet. See the first intent here:
The
new torproject.org is now ready for review on staging. Is still
a work in progress and we aim to release it during Q119.
Hiro
presented Onions in Containers during DockerCon Europe 18. She
talked about how .onion can grow using Docker containers and
what are the benefits of doing it for end users.
And
as a closure, in 2018 we released TB8 with several usability
improvements, we worked on TBA to match the experience that
users have in desktop, we launched support.torproject.org as the
primary source for users to find answers to their questions.
Also, we traveled over four countries in the global-south to
raise the voices of our users and their experiences in local
contexts, and we worked across teams to support them with
visual, UI and UX design.
As
we look forward to 2019, I hope to continue offering solutions
to users all over the world to reach the internet privately and
safely.
Happy
holidays folks!
A