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
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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://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
== Useful links ==
About the UX Team:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team
UX repository:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux
UX roadmap:
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
Team kanban:
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
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
S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
S101 – Tor VPN Client for Android
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32
S123 – Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34
== Announcements ==
New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a12 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/
== Agenda ==
Evergreen items:
- Announcements
- Weekly planning
- 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
- 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
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
- changes to TB manual wrt 11.5 are live!
ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119
preview the changes: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ - numerous user reports of Tor being relatively slow (https://forum.torproject.org/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/
Thanks everyone!
Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead