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:


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:

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- #endmeeting

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Tuesday May 24th @ 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 ==

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a11 (Desktop)      

New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.13 (Desktop & Android)

== 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):
    - 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:
     - working on Tor Browser User Manual updates wrt 11.5 release (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119)
     - pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tb-11-5-updates (feedback welcome!)
     - What are all the user workflows wrt the new Connection Assist in TB 11.5?

== Open Call for User Research ==

Find out how to contribute to the UX team:


Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@torproject.org