Hello everyone,

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

Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-22-16.59.log....

Also, find below the minutes for all meetings in the previous weeks.

== User Experience Team Meeting ==

UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1700 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Here are the logs from our meeting on March 1st: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-01-16.59.log....

Here are the logs from our meeting on March 8th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-08-16.59.log....

Here are the logs from our last meeting on March 15th: https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-15-16.59.log...

== 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...

UX kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%...

Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name%5...

--------------------------- Tuesday March 22nd 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%...

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%...

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 ==

Tor Browser 11.0.9 for desktop: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1109/

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

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

Discussion items for this week only:

4. <add your item here!>

== Weekly planning ==

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

Duncan/donuts

Last week (actual): - AFK on Monday - Supported dev work on about:rulesets (HTTPS-E deprecation) in tor-browser#40458 - Continued testing the most recent about:preferences#connection build in tor-browser#40774 - Started iterating on the design of about:preferences#connection in tor-browser#40782

This week (planned): - Finish next iteration of about:preferences#connection in tor-browser#40782 - Start and finish design QA of current torconenct build in tor-browser#40773 - Send a reminder about the tor-qa survey; potentially close it soon

Near future (backlog): - Start work on additional designs for S96 (torconnect) - Would like to take a look at the telegram bot's UX for S125, time-permitting - S101 continuation

Nah

Last week (actual): - started s30 trainings and collected feedback - coordinating activities with s30 partners - scheduled s9 interviews: for this week and next week - recruiting users for s101 interviews - created a survey for s30 feedback collection

This week (planned): - s30 trainings and feedback on tuesday, thursday and saturday - start scheduling usability testing/interview for s30 - card sorting (features survey) planning for s101 - interviews planning for 101 - s9 interview on thursday - schedule more s9 interviews - meet with user research volunteer on thursday - reading list: Measuring accessibility of popular websites while using Tor https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Ae9ead224-e7eb-46df-b94...

Nicob

Last week (actual): - Developed and finished assets for mystery swag bag campaign https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/operations/communications/-/issues/48#note... - Developed ruleset concepts and sketches (this part of the project has since been paused so work won’t continue at this time) - Worked on bridge illustrations, waiting for review https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322#no... - Sent out nah's limesurvey for sticker poll - Worked on creative applications for comms 22 art direction - Started moodboarding process for Annual Report art direction

This week (planned): - Start hi-fi design for USAGM landing page https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-support/-/issues/29#note_2789281 - Continue moodboarding for Annual Report - Continue creative applications for comms 22 art direction

Imauri - Can assist in research scoping, planning, execution.

Last week: - Would like to assist in tactical research efforts for any of the following projects: - O2.0 - Telegram Bridge Bot - community.torproject.org usability aduit - torproject.org usability audit

This week: Meeting with Nah & Duncan this Thrusday (3/24) to assign and prioritize research

Joydeep

ref. Check-in with User Support - contd. user reports of https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212 - summary of the bug: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212#note_278... (tl;dr blocked until TBA 11.0.10 release) updates for users: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-8-android/2527/3

== 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!

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Nah User Researcher