Hello,

Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in August.

Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-13-14.00.log.html

Today we discussed Tor Browser 10.5’s launch and the status issues we’re currently seeing user feedback on, the upcoming release of Snowflake in 10.5.3 for Android, our plan for collecting feedback about our proposed forum structures, and lastly the June 2021 user feedback report.

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== Monthly User Experience Team Meeting ==
 
Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday August 3rd at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 

Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:

July 13th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-13-14.00.log.html

June 8th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-08-14.00.log.html

May 11th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log.html

April 6th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-06-13.58.log.html

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Tuesday July 13th 14:00 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

S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%20103


== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 10.5 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105

* Tor Browser 10.5.1 Release (Android only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1051

* Tor Browser Alpha 10.5a17 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a17

* Tor Browser Alpha Release (Android only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a1

* Tails 4.20: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-420

* V2 Onion Services deprecation: https://status.torproject.org/issues/2021-05-6-v2-deprecation/

    
== Agenda ==

1. Tor Browser 10.5 release, known bugs and how to feed back:

- All known issues: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/99

- Outstanding _new_ issues on desktop:

* V2 warning revisions: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40523
* Saved Logins not available in 10.5: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40506

- Outstanding _new_ issues on Android:
* Two new-tab options shown on urlbar long-press: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40174
* Find the Quit button: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40172
* Banner obscures address bar: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40176

2. Snowflake and Android:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40179
- Aiming for release in 10.5.3 on Friday

3. Tree testing the Tor forum structure:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40026
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tree-testing/

4. June 2021 user feedback report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-July/003139.html


== 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