Hi all!

July was another good month for UX. :)

I gave a talk to PETS 2017 about my paper ( https://petsymposium.org/2017/papers/issue3/paper2-2017-3-source.pdf) which evaluated the usability of Tor Launcher. I got a great reaction from the audience, most of which seemed to buy the "usability is important!" message. Some OTF people were in the audience, and they seemed to understand how critical usability work is! We were encouraged to apply for a grant to get some funding for UX work, so Isa and Tommy are following through on that in August.

Isa and I worked in person while at PETS to information architect what will go on the home portal for torproject.org. We know it's taking a while, and people are wary of attempts to improve the site. But we're quite serious and persistent! It's just not funded at the moment and getting our spare cycles.

We finished redesigning Tor launcher (https://marvelapp.com/3f6102d/) to better guide users through configuring their network settings. Some of the changes made were: 1) combining all the configuration options into a single screen, as inspired by the in-browser network settings menu 2) clarifying which countries will need to configure bridges on the first screen 3) incorporating the bridgeDB service into the interface.

In addition we started other work, such as: - potential changes to the tor browser toolbar to give easier access to security controls - messages and indicators for different states when visiting a .onion site (http + .onion, for instance) - user testing for onionbrowser to validate recent changes to their onboarding sequence

Cheers,

Linda N. Lee Current Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=lindanaeunlee GPG Fingerprint: FA0A C9BE 2881 B347 9F4F C0D7 BE70 F826 5ED2 8FA2