Hi Tor,
OTF summit ========== We kicked off November in Taipei. I facilitated a session with our friends of "OK Thanks" about designing with communities and collaborative design processes. Thanks, Fiona and Tiffany for the invite and for sharing this space with me <3
We also had very insightful conversations with OTF partners and community members. Meeting such as like-minded individuals making an impact around the globe is always a huge focus drive and fuel of recharge energy to our day to day work.
Onion Services ============== We've been working on Prioritizing Onions feature with acat. We want to allow users to 1. discover when a secure onion version of the website they are visiting is available and also 2. opt-in to upgrade their security. With onions becoming popular, onion secured sites may get upgraded automatically, like what HTTP to HTTPS does. But now, we want to introduce users about the benefits of onion security. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21952
mcs and brade made progress on the onion auth feature too. Onion services operators will be able to set an extra security layer. Tor Browser will also allow recurrent users to save those credentials at the first time of use. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19757
After all the work we have been doing at the UI related with onions, we may need to update our URL bar and circuit display to have a coherent and consistent UI. We are having that discussion here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32645
Tor Browser 9.5 =============== We want to allow users to quickly recover from website breakage that could happen because the security trade-offs, so we think per-site settings are a critical part of improving that flow. pospeselr, and I have been discussing how we can implement it at the browser user interface. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30570
The last release set Letterboxing enabled, and we got some confused users by the "weird margins." We've been discussing how we can introduce the benefits of letterboxing to users and also how to allow users to disable/enable the feature via the regular preferences panel UI. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32324 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32325
WWW === We have been discussing and proposing improvements to the current download Tor Browser page. We will run user research with communities during December so it can inform our changes. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32460
The styleguide got some love. We included updated brand assets, the Tor Browser icon, and some other good peaks. https://styleguide.torproject.org/
OONI ==== As part of S30, the ooni team has been working on exposing the new Circumvention test in the Probe app UI, both in desktop and mobiles. https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/804
Localization ============ We did new rounds of tweets asking for translations for the manual and support portal. We debugged the errors with different locales on Lektor, and made it easier to add new locales. We updated the documentation - for translators https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/translation/rules - for developers https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/translation/developers
Open Team ========= The UX Team roadmap kanban breathes here: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/ux/-/boards
If you missed those, November weekly meetings notes are here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-November/000473.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-November/000474.html
Peace and love,
A