Hello,

Thanks to everyone who made it to yesterday's UX Team meeting. Please note that next week’s meeting has been cancelled for hackweek, however we’re looking forward to seeing you all again on Tuesday 5th of July instead.

This week we announced a new project: S131 – Refactoring Tor Browser for Desktop, celebrated the publication of the annual report, took care of various team admin tasks, and discussed everyone’s plans for hackweek (which takes place next week).

Here are the minutes:

https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-21-15.59.log... https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-21-15.59.log.html

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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 June 21st: https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-21-15.59.log... https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-21-15.59.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

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== 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

S131 – Refactoring Tor Browser for Desktop https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/ https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/88 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/8

== Announcements ==

New project: S131 – Refactoring Tor Browser for Desktop https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/ https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/88 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/8

The Tor Project 2020-2021 Annual Report https://blog.torproject.org/2020-2021-annual-report/ https://blog.torproject.org/2020-2021-annual-report/

Volunteer as an alpha tester https://blog.torproject.org/vounteer-as-an-alpha-tester/ https://blog.torproject.org/vounteer-as-an-alpha-tester/

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

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

Discussion items for this week only:

4. Nicob joining S30 & S9 syncs: - Nicob to join S30 immediately to share updates about bridges.torproject.org - Nicob to join S9 once Phase 6 commences

5. Potential new contractor for the UX Team: – Please have a think about the kind of things you could use help with - Bring your list to our 1:1 on Friday

6. Friday 1:1s: – Let's make the 15 minute overlap semi-permanent :) - This means Nicob will join 15 mins early - Nah and donuts will also discuss UR goals for the next 6/12 months

7. Hackweek: - Starts next week (27 June) – Please remember to pick a or submit your own (https://hackweek.onionize.space/ https://hackweek.onionize.space/) this week!

== Weekly planning ==

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

duncan/donuts

Last week (actual): - Began coordinating the 11.5 release - Responded to legacy Tor Browser tickets uncovered during ticket triage

This week (planned): - Transcribe VPN interview from last week - Check bridge-moji shortlist for compatibility issues in tor-browser#40860 - Add hackweek project to https://hackweek.onionize.space/ https://hackweek.onionize.space/ - Continue responding to legacy Tor Browser tickets

Nah

Last week (actual): - S101 features interviews - Transcribed S101 interviews - S96 testing and interview (Connect Assist - TB Alpha) - Reviewed feedback materials for S9 partners - many 1:1 calls to explain feedback materials (S9)

This week (planned): - Final adjustments on User Research materials (s9) - Create a plan to publish and adapt the materials for localization (s9) - Start collecting feedback from trainers (s9) - More 1:1 calls to introduce trainers to user feedback (s9) - AWJ training (s9) - Schedule interview and testing (s96) (s101) - Finish transcribing interviews (s101) - Start interview and test analysis (s101) (s96) - Align User Research Plan for Q3/Q4 (s30)

Nicob

Last week (actual): - Update graphics for AWJ trainings - S30: Second round of amends, continued QA work on BridgeDB pages with Kez - Browser icons: final svg export - Starting work on social teasers/graphics for Tor Browser 11.5 release

This week (planned): - S30: Continue QA work on BridgeDB pages with Kez - USAGM: Continue working on graphics for social previews - Continue work on telegram bot graphics - Continue workshopping tor network icon for browser - Continue work on social teasers/graphics for Tor Browser 11.5 release

Joydeep

Check-in with user support: - finished all updates to TB manual wrt 11.5 (alpha) ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 preview the changes: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ - published alpha testers call on Forum to test Connection Assist in TB Alpha: https://forum.torproject.net/t/help-us-test-the-new-connection-assist-in-tor... https://forum.torproject.net/t/help-us-test-the-new-connection-assist-in-tor-browser-alpha/3654 - a few user reports of https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40536 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40536

== 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