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 8th.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-02-01-16.59.log.html

Today we shared an update on upcoming Tor Browser releases for both Android and desktop, 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 February 1st:

== Useful links ==

About the UX Team:

UX repository:

UX roadmap:

UX kanban:

Team kanban:

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Tuesday February 1st 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

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet

S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android

== Announcements ==

Tor Browser 11.5a2 for desktop release:

Tor Browser 11.5a3 for Android release:

UCL survey on HTTPS-Only Modes in Tor Browser:

== Agenda ==

1. Announcements
2. Weekly planning

== Weekly planning ==

Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold**

Duncan

Last week (actual):
- Discussed getting tor-browser#19850 back on the roadmap with Applications
- Continued to support S96 (torconnect) development
- Finished adding tickets and setting up UX planning board for S101 (VPN)
- Synced with LEAP about UX for S101 (VPN)
- Restarted release meetings with Applications
- Finalized proposal for S9 extension

This week (planned):
- Begin UX evaluation of comparable Android apps for S101
- Start work on additional designs for S96 (torconnect)
- Finish and distribute the tor-qa survey
- Review UX Research report template
- Create ticket & brief nicob on Tor Browser icon work
- Buy Figjam licenses

Nah

Last week (actual):
    - 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
    - S9 proposal meeting and review
    - S9 survey preparation
    - S101 review studies, use cases and features
    
This week (planned):
    - S9 survey to find human rights defenders’ challenges and needs
    - S30 training and user research planning
    - S101 interviews planning
    - Map User Research portal needs for update

Nicob

Last week (actual):
- Artwork for Data Privacy Day
- Artwork for YEC blog post
- Additional stylizing for Vanguard blog 
- Worked on UR report template 

This week (planned):
- Continue work on UR report template
- Design wordmark + markup for Tor browser
- Research for Comms 2022 visual direction

== Open Call for User Research ==

Find out how to contribute to the UX team:


Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@torproject.org