Hello Tor,
During January the UX team have been collaborating with the Community Team on creating our new outreach material. Our ongoing work with Personas allowed us to create content focused on each different use case and user goal. We are going to have it localized and ready for download and print for organizations and partners who want to use them with their local communities. You can sneak peek them now: https://share.riseup.net/#8aTI-VwMHFbZaud4xkE_pA
TBA is going to reach stable probably in March, and we worked closely with the mobile team to provide an intuitive and smooth experience for users connecting to Tor. The work is currently in development, and you can follow our design discussions here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28329
Are you a Tor Browser Alpha kind of person? If yes, you already saw our new Tor Browser icon in action. If not, you can experience it by downloading our Alpha here (you can give us feedback also!) Thanks pospeselr for this shiny implementation! https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads-alpha
Pilar started a kanban board to track our open projects. You can lurk them here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/4LLhH5s-55_Vj0uO9W8t6LD9_WqmuS9bjTB3AE3L...
During our global-south travel in Colombia last year, we met Bea. She is an activist and a Tor and Tails heavy user. We put her in contact with our friends at Tails and Sajolida interviewed her. They made it public this month, and you can read it: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/interviews/#Bea
We are still working with OONI on Explorer revamp. January was the time for the Country pages redesign. Our goals with this redesign are: giving an understanding to a visitor about how comprehensive and reliable the data OONI has on that country, present high-level findings, provide insights that act as an entry point to the search pages and cross-reference link to OONI research reports for that country. Maria coordinated usability research for our first wireframe iteration with partners, and it gave us light on how researchers are using Explorer nowadays and what they expect for the next iteration. That allowed us to work in a new round of high definition mockups focusing on how we are displaying data and how we are enabling the interface for researchers to compare across data sets. Take a look at this hottie that Elio is working on: https://www.figma.com/file/Z6PtVLW7YkqcTRIRsO2Qzg/Explorer-Country-Pages?nod...
The new Tor Project website is about to see the light, and we are polishing details in staging to make it possible: https://lektor-staging.torproject.org/tpo/staging/
Caroline Sinders is joining us this quarter as our User Research Coordinator. We put together the plans for our user Research for this Q119. We want to collect feedback on our new Onboarding and also on our new Security Settings. You can read them here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/MUHbKrR0C1xakVNSQ0nRu9mwAdjAz5tSVhoOtZkn...
Gaba and Pilar collected priorities and needs for each team at the project. The UX Team ones for this 2019 are listed here: https://storm.torproject.org/grain/LjABMdzjECRMGoYeMgSjsf/
Hiro and I proposed a new feature for OnionShare that allows users to publish ephemeral .onion sites by merely dragging and dropping a folder inside OnionShare. This month, we got micahflee blessing, and it is scheduled for the next 2.1 release. You can read more here: https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/791 Are you a person interested on end-users? If you arrived to the end of this email, probably yes. Remember that our weekly meetings happen every Tuesday at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/UxTeam
See you online!
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