Hi Tor,
Those are the highlights from last month: * Tor Browser Tor Browser 8 got released, and I'm proud of the work we did in collaboration with the Development, Community and Communications teams. We thought about the user experience browsing with Tor Browser 8 as an opportunity to educate users. Educated users empower our product. The new circuit display, the onion padlock, and the new onboarding are just the beginning. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80
Tor Browser for Android got it first alpha release, please download it and let us know what do you think! https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-android
* Tor Browser Icon Tor browser got significant visual updates, and we think that our icon should reflect it. Yes, Tor Browser needs a new icon *_* I have been working on some concepts to replace the globe icon. What do you think? Do you have ideas? Dump there at the ticket! https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25702
* New torproject.org Website After the support portal launch, we continued our Tor Project website redesign focusing on landing pages. We are working with the Communications Team iterating content and layout. You anxious? Feel free to sneak peek the prototype here: https://marvelapp.com/project/2397265/
* Usability Research Helen is traveling through Kenya meeting and interviewing our users. We are using the ticket #27010 for hosting all our usability research efforts. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27010
* Academic Research Marshini Chetty and Agnieszka Dutkowska-Żuk from Princeton have been playing with .onions for a while and also they wrote a paper (!). Last month we met to talk about further usability research related with onion services and Tor Browser. Thanks, Marshini and Agnieszka!
* Conferences Hiro spoke about onions and different user cases at Fullstackfest in Barcelona. Are you curious about .onions? You can see the slides here: https://slides.com/hiropaw/deck-15-18#/
* S9 - Localization The new Tor Browser 8 got released with 9 nine more language support: Catalan, Irish, Indonesian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Hebrew, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese. Thanks, emmapeel, arthurdelsdein, ggus and folks around the globe for making it happen!
On behalf of the Tor UX team, Antonela
Antonela Debiasi:
- Tor Browser Icon
Tor browser got significant visual updates, and we think that our icon should reflect it. Yes, Tor Browser needs a new icon *_* I have been working on some concepts to replace the globe icon. What do you think? Do you have ideas? Dump there at the ticket! https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25702
Why not use the onion icon from the Tor style guide?
https://styleguide.torproject.org/static/images/color.svg
After the work done on having a unified visual style guide for Tor, I'm worried to see more versions of the onion being developed... Or are you working on a new version of the onion that's meant to be used everywhere in the future?
- New torproject.org Website
After the support portal launch, we continued our Tor Project website redesign focusing on landing pages. We are working with the Communications Team iterating content and layout. You anxious? Feel free to sneak peek the prototype here: https://marvelapp.com/project/2397265/
This pages asks me for a login. Do you have a login to share with people who want to looks at your prototype without registering to Marvel?
- Usability Research
Helen is traveling through Kenya meeting and interviewing our users. We are using the ticket #27010 for hosting all our usability research efforts. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27010
Awesome! I'd be very interested in reading these interviews!
We've been doing interviews of Tails users for the past 1.5 year. For privacy reasons, I'm not saving a full transcript of the interview but in the last ones, I've been trying to integrate in my summaries more details on the context, mental model, and motivations of the interviewees, see for example:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/interviews/#Claudia
For example, to illustrate this tension between full transcript and summary, I find it super important to use a vocabulary that's closer to what users use instead of translating it into Tails jargon; which in turn can inform the vocabulary to use on our website.
What are you plans to share the output of these interviews with the wider community?
And here is an excellent book on interviewing users:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=steve+portigal+interviewing+users
Hi sajolida!
Why not use the onion icon from the Tor style guide?
https://styleguide.torproject.org/static/images/color.svg
I worked on some versions using the current onion. You can read more here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25693
Or are you working on a new version of the onion that's meant to be
used everywhere in the future?
There is not one onion icon that is used for all the things right now. You have onions talking about the tor network, about onion services, about the non-profit. I hope we can achieve a coherent set of visual identifiers for all those. We are working upon towards that.
This pages asks me for a login. Do you have a login to share with
people who want to looks at your prototype without registering to Marvel?
Could you try with this one? https://marvelapp.com/4471ig9
What are your plans to share the output of these interviews with the
wider community?
We are trying to unify the archive of the research we are doing at the mentioned ticket.
For usability testing rounds, I don't think we will transcript all the interviews we did we users. We have voice recording, tho. We are working on summarize outputs of those research for Mexico and share it with the Applications Team.
Yes, Steve Portigal is a great source, thanks!
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On 9/15/18 10:22 AM, sajolida wrote:
Antonela Debiasi:
- Tor Browser Icon
Tor browser got significant visual updates, and we think that our icon should reflect it. Yes, Tor Browser needs a new icon *_* I have been working on some concepts to replace the globe icon. What do you think? Do you have ideas? Dump there at the ticket! https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25702
Why not use the onion icon from the Tor style guide?
https://styleguide.torproject.org/static/images/color.svg
After the work done on having a unified visual style guide for Tor, I'm worried to see more versions of the onion being developed... Or are you working on a new version of the onion that's meant to be used everywhere in the future?
- New torproject.org Website
After the support portal launch, we continued our Tor Project website redesign focusing on landing pages. We are working with the Communications Team iterating content and layout. You anxious? Feel free to sneak peek the prototype here: https://marvelapp.com/project/2397265/
This pages asks me for a login. Do you have a login to share with people who want to looks at your prototype without registering to Marvel?
- Usability Research
Helen is traveling through Kenya meeting and interviewing our users. We are using the ticket #27010 for hosting all our usability research efforts. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27010
Awesome! I'd be very interested in reading these interviews!
We've been doing interviews of Tails users for the past 1.5 year. For privacy reasons, I'm not saving a full transcript of the interview but in the last ones, I've been trying to integrate in my summaries more details on the context, mental model, and motivations of the interviewees, see for example:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/interviews/#Claudia
For example, to illustrate this tension between full transcript and summary, I find it super important to use a vocabulary that's closer to what users use instead of translating it into Tails jargon; which in turn can inform the vocabulary to use on our website.
What are you plans to share the output of these interviews with the wider community?
And here is an excellent book on interviewing users:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=steve+portigal+interviewing+users
Antonela Debiasi:
Hi sajolida!
Hi!
Why not use the onion icon from the Tor style guide? https://styleguide.torproject.org/static/images/color.svg
I worked on some versions using the current onion. You can read more here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25693
This ticket is quite long and hard for me to navigate but I see that you're mentioning in several places to discuss the different uses of the onion icon in Mexico. Happy to join the discussion if you want!
Or are you working on a new version of the onion that's meant to be used everywhere in the future?
There is not one onion icon that is used for all the things right now. You have onions talking about the tor network, about onion services, about the non-profit. I hope we can achieve a coherent set of visual identifiers for all those. We are working upon towards that.
Cool!
This pages asks me for a login. Do you have a login to share with people who want to looks at your prototype without registering to Marvel?
Could you try with this one? https://marvelapp.com/4471ig9
This works, thanks!
The sitemap is hard to visualize in Tor Browser but the other pages work fine. It looks great!
What are your plans to share the output of these interviews with the wider community?
We are trying to unify the archive of the research we are doing at the mentioned ticket.
I saw this now :)
For usability testing rounds, I don't think we will transcript all the interviews we did we users. We have voice recording, tho. We are working on summarize outputs of those research for Mexico and share it with the Applications Team.
When you said "interviewing" I thought you were going to do in-depth interviews. But indeed, seeing your methodology, the kind of aggregated summaries that you are posting (#27742, #27743) makes more sense.
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