Hello,
Thanks to everyone who made it to last week's UX Team meeting! Here are the minutes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-0 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html4-1 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html2-16.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html
Note: Starting today, UX Team meetings will be happening 1 hour earlier at a new time of 1600 UTC.
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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 April 12th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-0 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html4-1 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html2-16.59.log.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.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... 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%... 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%5... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team
== Meetbot commands ==
#startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting #endmeeting
--------------------------- Tuesday April 12th @ 17:00 UTC ---------------------------
== 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%... 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%... 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 meeting time starting next week: 1600 UTC
New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.10 (Windows, macOS, Linux) https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11010/ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11010/
== 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
Last week (actual): - Reviewed and updated the team kanban with gaba - Read and reviewed first transcript from current round of S30 usability testing - Posted new iteration of torconnect designs in applications/tor-browser#40781 - Continued design-QA of torconnect in applications/tor-browser#40773 - Closed the tor-qa survey and posted results in ux/research#67 This week (planned): - Combine, dedupe and finalize the two bridge-moji shortlists in tor-browser#40860 - Create new tickets for buildable elements of tor-browser#40773 - Test new connection features in 11.5a8 and post feedback - Start to consider the next steps for tor-qa in applications/team#6 - Maybe design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885 - Quarterly reports for funders
^ Half of this will spillover to next week
Nah
Last week (actual): - sent compensation to s9 interviewees (need to send more!) - send t-shirts to s30 testing volunteers (check with gus) - did one usability testing and interview sessions for s30 - scheduled usability testing and interview sessions (mexico) - training and collecting feedback on tuesday evening - training and collecting feedback on saturday morning - transcribed and translated s30 usability testing (portuguese) - did more 2 s9 interviews (spanish)
This week (planned): - review s9 ToR - start analysing s30 feedback (start with spanish): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/79 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/79 - last s30 training (cycle of training) today! - review s9 follow up, and send compensation to s9 interviewees - transcribe and translate s9 interviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/77 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/77 - schedule s30 usability testing (mex) - more s30 usability testing (mex and br): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/78 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/78 - check feedback on the VPN interview script - attending to "Obfuscated VPN: Lessons Learned and Future Work"
need help: review card sorting survey based on job stories (s101) near future: hope to start scheduling s101 interviewees mid-next-week with sweetcurator
Nicob
Last week (actual): - afk 1/2 day friday - USAGM - RTL screens - Responsive screens (tablet, mobile) for LTR and RTL - Component states - Expanded screens - Started design QA with Kez
This week (planned): - USAGM - Design QA with kez - S123 meeting - Annual report - Begin dropping in content from Al - Exploring layout design - Identify + brainstorm illustrations/graphics/components to be developed
Imauri
This week: - Awaiting schedule for upcoming VPN study interviews (s101)
Last week: - Reviewed interview script for VPN study (s101)
Joydeep
ref. Check-in with User Support - user support report for March 2022 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-April/003338.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-April/003338.html
== 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@torproject.org mailto:duncan@torproject.org