[tor-project] UX team meeting notes, May 24th

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Hello,

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

Here are the minutes:

https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.log.html

Last week we shared an update on key projects across the team, and discussed the new anti-censorship user flows planned for Tor Browser 11.5.

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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 24th:
https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.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 May 24****th @ 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 11.5a11 (Desktop)
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a11/

New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.13 (Desktop & Android)
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

  1. Announcements :mega:
  2. Weekly planning :date:
  3. Check-in with user support :speech_balloon:

== Weekly planning ==

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

duncan/donuts

Last week (actual):

  • Caught up on email backlog
  • Reviewed the latest challenges and needs report in ux/research#25
  • Reviewed the interview script feeback for S101
  • Reviewed the Annual Report in operations/communications#52

This week (planned):

  • Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885
  • Design QA for TB 11.5a11 in applications/tor-browser#40911
  • Write blog post to support the Community QA recruitment campaign in operations/communications#65
  • Reivew Joydeep’s notes for tb-manual updates
  • Present Connection Assist at the East Africa meetup
  • Attend the VPN Unconference

Backlog/time permitting:

  • Start thinking about social previews/teasers for Tor Browser 11.5
  • Begin wireframes for the Tor VPN in ux/design#35

Nah

Last week (actual):

  • updated and published s9 report
  • analysed VPN possible interviews (review survey results and interview script)
  • participated in the Ooni training with Derechos Digitales
  • started collecting feedback on localized material (s9)
  • started s96 research plan
  • reaching out to possible interviewees for the vpn research

This week (planned):

  • call with east africa organization (possible training and collecting feedback mid-June)
  • east africa meetup on thursday
  • reaching out to possible testers for s96
  • reaching out more possible interviewees for the vpn research
  • past fellowship work a couple of times this week!

Nicob

Last week (actual):

  • Annual report: illustrations/graphics, submitted draft to the team for review, incorporating edits based on feedback, began concepting work for cover page
  • USAGM: continued QA work with Kez on responsive for LTR and RTL
  • Began wireframes for redesign of tor download page, met with Duncan for first review/feedback session: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248
  • GSoC graphic for comms

This week (planned):

  • Annual report: Incorporate any more edits/feedback there may be, finish cover page
  • S9: Incorporate feedback into wireframes for Tor download page
  • Create social graphic for congestion control social post
  • Start work on updating figjam file for org chart

Joydeep

Check-in with user support:

== 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

duncan@torproject.org

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