[tor-project] UX team meeting notes, June 14th

Tue Jun 14 15:16:44 UTC 2022

Hello,

Thanks to everyone who made it to last week's UX Team meeting. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again soon today.

Here are the minutes from last week:

https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.log.html <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.log.html>

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== User Experience Team Meeting ==

UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1600 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 

Here are the logs from our meeting on May 31st:
http <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log.html>://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log.html>-15.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log.html>

And here are the logs from our meeting on June 7th:
https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.log.html <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.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%3A1 <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%93&label_name[]=UX <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[]=UX%20Team <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team>

== Meetbot commands ==

- #startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting
- #endmeeting

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Tuesday June 7th @ 16:00 UTC
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== 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%93&state=opened&label_name=Sponsor%209&label_name=UX <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%93&state=opened&label_name=Sponsor%2030&label_name=UX <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>

S123 – Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34>

== Announcements ==

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a12 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)      
https://blog.torproject.org/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/>new-release-tor-browser-115a12 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/>/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/>

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

1. Announcements 📣
2. Weekly planning 📅
3. Check-in with user support 💬

== Weekly planning ==

Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold**

duncan/donuts

This week (planned):
    - Continue wireframes for the Tor VPN in ux/design#35
    - Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885
    - Design QA for TB 11.5a12 in applications/tor-browser#40911
    - Finish and publish blog post to support the Community QA recruitment campaign in operations/communications#65
    - Reivew Joydeep's notes for tb-manual updates

Nah

Last week (actual):
    - s101 interviews
    - transcribed interviews
    - worked on s30 to decide and plan activities for next Q, and Ecuador training
    - lost two days of work because of weather complications in airports

This week (planned):
    - Review and map S30 UX activities
    - Schedule and run S101 interviews
    - Schedule, prepare and run S96 testing
    - will attend some sessions on RightsCon
    - gathering feedback for S9 materials

Nicob

Last week (actual):
    - Annual Report: finalized cover and back page after feedback, final report exported and is in progress of being added to torproject.org!
    - S123: continued QA with kez for USAGM sites, met with Raya to start brainstorming social campaign strategy, meeting with OTF
    - S30: Submitted first round of design QA amends with kez for BridgeDB pages: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40051 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40051>
    - Refined and exported tor browser icons as svgs in their respective states: connection + alt connection, onion padlocks, globes
    - Started pulling some visual design inspo for VPN app: https://www.figma.com/file/sjNWeIOpb0BckjmxApXd5m/Tor-VPN-designs?node-id=244%3A3395 <https://www.figma.com/file/sjNWeIOpb0BckjmxApXd5m/Tor-VPN-designs?node-id=244%3A3395>

This week (planned):
    - S30: Continued QA work on BridgeDB pages with Kez
    - Begin work on social teasers/graphics for Tor Browser 11.5 release
    - Continue workshopping tor network icon for browser

Joydeep

Check-in with user support:
     - monthly user support report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-June/003391.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-June/003391.html>
     - changes to TB manual wrt 11.5 are live!
         ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119>
         preview the changes: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ <https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/>
     - numerous user reports of Tor being relatively slow (https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-is-much-slower-latterly-than-it-used-to-be/3567 <https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-is-much-slower-latterly-than-it-used-to-be/3567>)

== 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 at torproject.org <mailto:duncan at torproject.org>

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