Hello & happy new year!

Thanks to everyone who made it to yesterday’s UX Team meeting – the first one of the year. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on January 18th.

Here are the minutes from yesterday’s meeting:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/202 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html2/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html

Yesterday we discussed our change to a weekly frequency for team meetings, the addition of a weekly planning section to better communicate what we’re working on individually, Joydeep’s monthly status report for December, and our plan to set aside a few hours each month for a team reading morning.

Lastly, we continued the discussion in #tor-ux with a review of the work we did in Q3 2021 on the UX Team Roadmap.

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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 11th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/202 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html2/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.html.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.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 11th 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 ==

* Tor Browser 11.0.4 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/

* New time and frequency for team meetings: weekly @ 1700 UTC

== Agenda ==

1. Announcements 2. Weekly planning 3. Review Joydeep's monthly status report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-January/003254.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-January/003254.html 4. Reading morning (the one mentioned on FigJam) 5. Q4 Roadmap actualizing

== Weekly planning ==

Duncan

Last week (actual): - Set up a new Figma account for Tor Project UX & transferred all existing files over - Started experimenting with new about:tor about:tor designs for tor-browser#40752 - Set up onboarding document for our new team-member - Added OKR tracker to UX Planning Board/Roadmap

This week (planned): - Onboard new team-member - Make sure the YEC is taken down - Tor Browser 11.0.4 launch support - Review and "actualize" Q4 2021 roadmap - Set up new team kanban - Ticket wrangling for torconnect - Draft script for tor-qa survey

Nah

Last week (actual): - getting back on track! - reviewing issues

This week (planned): - ECC meetings - write and review new project phase S9 - exploring the last VPN survey for new insights and next steps S101 - update User Research portal website - many 1:1 to align and plan user research for this quarter

Joydeep (championquizzer) [Community Team work]

This week (planned): - user support work (priority this week: users in .ru and .kz) - Gitlab to-do/reviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&assignee_username=championquizzer

== 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