February 2016 - www-team - lists.torproject.org

Multilingual web
by Noel Torres 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hi all I'm sorry if I'm a bit out, but I've had several "real life" problems lately. Is the current thinking that the new web design should be multilingual? See you in Valencia! Noel -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? OpenPGP key: 1586 50C8 7DBF B050 DE62 EA12 70B4 00F3 EEC7 C372 Spiral galaxies always have at least TWO arms.

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Wanted: Help us mock up a Tor Website Redesign
by isabela 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

Hello there! We (the www-team) are looking for help on getting mocks done for our main site redesign project! A redesign proposal can be found in the wiki: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website/MainSiteRedesign So here is the deal, we are asking for designers to build mocks of how they would organize those elements we put together in the proposal. The photos of the drawings in the wiki were just for brainstorming purpose, yourdesign does not need to follow that. What we want is to get a better idea of how we can make our website more userfriendly and streamlined. We are asking though, that you do read the proposal to understand the main information we want to have in the page. As you can see, we do plan on simplifying things a lot and that means content will be moved out and put somewhere else. You don't need to worry about this part, all you need to focus right now to help us out is how to present the main information we defined on that proposal. If you're now wondering how we'll decide which mock to go with for our final design after asking a bunch of people: Good question! We have a process in mind that includescollaboration with researchers and UX expertsto help us to buildthe new site, it all depends on how many options we have. If we have a lot we might want to select a few to test first. But we do want to test a few options with real people to help us make the best decision. So! If you want to help there a few ways you can reach out to us: 1. you can add your contribution as comments to this ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18245 2. you can always talk with the www-team by emailing our list: www-team(a)lists.torproject.org 3. you can also join our website redesign meetings on Fridays at 2000UTC #tor-project irc channel Please reach out if you have questions! Thanks, Isabela -- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa

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Next website redesign meeting tomorrow Friday Feb 19
by isabela 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

Hello there! Our next meeting is tomorrow Friday, Feb 19th at Noon PST time (2000 UTC right?). We will be meeting on IRC at #tor-project. Please take a look at the letter we started last meeting - I added more information about what we want and process: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/bcU8KgOR06DrmgLVKtTlGP0YeXcEYEgPz28Msdb… I am working on the other ticket, will give an update tomorrow. Another thing we should talk is Valencia, do we want to have a session for this project during the dev-meeting? I'll ya tomorrow! Cheers, Isabela -- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa

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website meeting today and next meeting
by isabela 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Hello there! We had a great meeting today - answering a lot of good questions related to the process for this project. I recommend read the full log if you have the chance. I am organizing everything in the wiki, you can find the link to log there as well as other info about the project: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website/MainSiteRedesign I also spent some time organizing tickets and will continue to do so. Our next meeting will be next Friday, Feb 19th, at Noon PST, 8PM UTC on irc #tor-project Between now and then we plan to: * work on a letter inviting designers to help us ( https://storm.torproject.org/shared/8DuclQINVjSojPAkIhxoVh4Hh3m3yIiwyeWmfnW… ) * work on Content mapping #10591 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10591> You can always ping people here or on irc if you have any questions and wants to help with something. Cheers, Isabela -- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa

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Hey, let's make Tor awesome!
by Jag Talon 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

It seems that there’s been some discussion about redesigning the main website a little while back in 2015SummerDevMeeting that brainstorming sessions were made and mockups were posted in Trac. That got me pretty excited! However looking at the issues on the wiki, there doesn’t seem to be anything related to the new redesign of the site. I think we should start planning and making the redesign sooner rather than later—not just for the sake of making it look pretty, but to communicate better to people (as you all are very well aware of!): - Simplifying for new users. I agree with the mockup for removing the recent blog posts because the page seems like is trying to both give old users updates and convince new users to use Tor which ends up cluttering the page. Not having updates and keeping it simple on the introductory page is a common aesthetic on modern product websites. An alternative to “User Stories” could be a bunch of quotes from users such as Molly Crabapple which you guys have done wonderfully on Twitter. I think this allows people to have more of an emotional connection with Tor. We could probably even go as far as merging both “Use Stories” and the “Why” sections into one section if we wanted to simplify the website even further. - Explaining why donations matter. Right now the donate button is just … well ... a button. Explaining why people should donate to Tor is also important. Seeing something like this from Brain Pickings shows you that it’s easy to donate, and that your money is worth a lot when it comes to helping out. The emotion factor of that sidebar vs a button that says “donate” is huge. Now this is just the main page, and there’s definitely a lot of work to be done as witnessed by the redesign work in other companies! I know that there are some excited people in Tor as well, and I’d like to help out if that’s possible. A little about me: I’m Jag Talon, and I work for DuckDuckGo making some front-end stuffs. I have the experience that I think would help in a redesign like this, and I have some free time to do it as well. I think a good first step would be to have the core Tor people to sketch out their ideas and for them to say what would make this redesign a success so that we have an idea on what things the design should prioritize on. What do you think? - Jag Talon

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