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

== 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 - related tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/11698 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/11698 - tb-manual.tpo: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 - support.tpo: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/issues/298 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/issues/298 - user support channels: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40073 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40073 - localization: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/issues/40068 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/issues/40068

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 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 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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212)

== 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