Hello all,

Here's what we've been up to in March. ᕦ(^o^)ᕤ

1: Performed user tests on the mobile security slider [1].

We redesigned the security slider for mobile devices, and in the process, altered the settings and text. From testing, we found out that people expected the slider to operate differently (some dragged the slider, some clicked at discrete points, some people clicked on the words below the slider), and we've used this feedback make sure that all of these interactions have a response. Participants read all of the text in the interface and felt better about the new naming convention, but more improvements could be made to correctly communicate what these settings are for.

2: Designed the portals for torproject.org [2], especially the support page [3].

We've designed the support page, and are now working on the content that will go on the page. Alison and Colin are writing up frequently asked questions and their respective answers to those questions. We're going to focus heavily on assisting with the download and installation process by OS, and cover the most commonly asked questions sent to help@tpo. Brainstorming at the dev meeting clarified what purposes the other portals can serve as well.

3: Brainstormed improving tor launcher, browser fonts, and security slider for tor browser.

All of these were a result of dev meeting goodness. We plan to make design changes to tor launcher to make it easy to use (we should do this now), then work on automating the connection process by pinging relays and bridges to see which ones are reachable (proposal almost finalized), and eventually work on a meek-fronted scheme that interacts with bridgeDB for safe connections (proposal pending). We are unsure how the browser fonts affect the end users, and if it bugs them enough for them to switch. We also noted that the security slider is hard to adjust, and is global, which makes user usually default to the lowest security setting required by any of the sites they regularly frequent.

4: Attended rightscon and interacted with human rights activists, policymakers, and funders [4].

I, Linda, attended this event, and found it quite energizing. It's not everyday that you can interact with at-risk users from all over the world. I also learned a lot, which I liked.

5: Made tor-official images and banners [5].

Elio made some pretty nice looking images! We plan to use them eventually, when tpo.org is redesigned.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UX/OrfoxSecuritySlider#Tes... [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UX/TorProjectWebsite [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UX/SupportPage [4] https://www.rightscon.org/program/ [5] https://github.com/uracreative/tor-assets

٩(◕‿◕)۶, Linda