Hello,
Thanks to everyone who made it to today's UX Team meeting! We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on February 1st.
Here are the minutes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01- http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html25-16 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html
Today we shared the study UCL are currently running on HTTPS-only modes in Tor Browser, and discussed each UX team-member's ongoing work across key projects.
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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 25th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01- http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html25-16 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html
== Useful links ==
About the UX Team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team
UX repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux
UX roadmap: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0... 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%... 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%5... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team
-------------------------- Tuesday January 25th 17:00 UTC --------------------------
== 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%... 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%... 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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32
== Announcements ==
* Survey on HTTPS Only Modes in Tor Browser: https://forum.torproject.net/t/survey-on-https-only-modes-in-tor-browser/180... https://forum.torproject.net/t/survey-on-https-only-modes-in-tor-browser/1808
== Agenda ==
1. Announcements 2. Weekly planning
== Weekly planning ==
Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold**
Duncan
Last week (actual): - Finished nicob's onboarding - Reviewed and closed old torconenct-related tickets - Created new tickets for the next VPN objectives: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 - Updated the Android VPN product brief doc - Met to discuss applications QA - Wrote draft script for tor-qa survey: ux/research#67
This week (planned): - Recap tor-browser#19850 and get it back on the roadmap - Support torconnect development - Continue prepwork for the next VPN tasks
Nah
Last week (actual): - Collect user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45 - Report user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46 - I was sick, so this wasn't a very productive week
This week (planned): - think on ways to collaborate our User Research with other groups, and meeting with Sajolida to explore new paths in the same subject - Update User Research repository - (if have time) work on User Research Plan for volunteers - S9 proposal meeting and review - S101 review studies, use cases and features
Nicob
Last week (actual): - Finished final design for Vanguard blog post - Began researching similar orgs branding - Started working on a UR report template - More onboarding
This week (planned): - Continue working on UR report template - Begin artwork for Data Privacy & Safer Internet days - Begin artwork for YEC wrap-up blog post
== Open Call for User Research ==
Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ 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 mailto:duncan@torproject.org