Hello,

Thanks to everyone who made it to today's UX Team meeting too! We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html

Today we discussed the timings of updating the Tor Browser user manual ahead of Tor Browser 11.5 release, which we’re planning on bundling into the browser.

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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:

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- #endmeeting

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Tuesday April 19th @ 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

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet

S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android

S123 - Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM

== Announcements ==

Nothing this week!

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

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

Discussion items for this week only:

4. Update Tor Browser User Manual with TB 11.5 release 

Championquizzer: i'd also stress that we will have to keep a good time margin for l10n
Richard: we should hash out some details in the release meeting re how this is actually getting integrated into tor-browser and the build system

Deadline for changes to make the bundling: TBC, donuts will discuss with applications in our next release meeting

== Weekly planning ==

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

duncan/donuts

Last week (actual):
    - Split the newest designs in tor-browser#40773 into new tickets for implementation
    - Tested new connection features in 11.5a9 and posted feedback in applications/tor-browser#40887
    - Began working on the next steps for tor-qa in applications/team#6
    - Quarterly reports for funders

This week (planned):
    - Combine, dedupe and finalize the two bridge-moji shortlists in applications/tor-browser#40860
    - Add Tor Browser to the Internews UX Forum website
    - Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885
    - Produce outline for tor-qa recruitment campaign in applications/team#6
    - Start thinking about social previews/teasers for Tor Browser 11.5
    - Maybe look at Snowflake landing page redesign in pluggable-transports/snowflake#40125
    - Catch up on O1 activities for S101
    - More quarterly reports for funders

Nah

Last week (actual):
    - gave a quick reading to s9 ToR
    - started analysing s30 feedback (start with spanish): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/79
    - reviewed s9 follow up, and sent compensation to s9 interviewees
    - transcribed and translated most of s9 interviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/77
    - did more s30 usability testing (mex) and br (two of them today)
    - transcribed and translated usability testing from mexico
    - attended "Obfuscated VPN: Lessons Learned and Future Work"
    - afk on Monday

This week (planned):
    - meet and review s9 ToR today
    - transcribe and translate today's usability testing (s30)
    - schedule more 2 usability testing for connect assist
    - final analysis for these usability testing ^
    - review s30 report
    - translate orbot's usability testing and survey (from portuguese to EN)
    - finish survey analysis (s30)
    - prepare s9 presentation for latam tor meetup
    - schedule meeting with sweetcurator to review script interview
    - catch up on s101

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 most of thurs + fri
    - USAGM:QA with Kez
    - Revise donate page header images
    - Revise monoprint onion sticker design
    - Dropping in content for Annual Report, beginning layout and design

This week (planned):
    - USAGM: Design QA with kez
    - Annual report: Continue dropping in content as it becomes available; continue layout and design, plan graphics and illustrations
    - Artwork for Network Health blog post
    - Update outreach material with v3 onion address

Joydeep

Check-in with user support:
     - few more reports of TBA 11.0.8 crashing on launch (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212)
   
== Open Call for User Research ==

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Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@torproject.org