Hello,

Thanks to everyone who made it to today's UX Team meeting! We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on January 25th.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-18-17.59.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-18-17.59.log.html

Today we introduced or newest team-member, announced Tor Browser’s 11.0.4’s release, and discussed our tentative plan to deprecate the UX team mailing list in favor of the forum.

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== User Experience Team Meeting ==

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

Here are the logs from our last meeting on January 18th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.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

-------------------------- Tuesday January 18th 18:00 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%... 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

== Announcements ==

* The UX Team welcomes our newest member: Nico (nicob)!

* Tor Browser 11.0.4 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/

== Agenda ==

1. Announcements 2. Weekly planning 3. UX mailing list deprecation

== Weekly planning ==

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

Duncan

Last week (actual): - Onboarded new team-member - Made sure the YEC is taken down on desktop and web - Tor Browser 11.0.4 launch support - Reviewed the Q4 2021 roadmap - Set up new team kanban - Split out torconenct design into three tickets: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/29590 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/29590 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40780 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40780 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40782 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40782 - Started a script for the planned tor-qa survey

This week (planned): - Finish nicob's onboarding - Continue torconnect ticket wrangling - Get up to speed on the VPN project - Contribute to review of Tor QA practises - Review remote user research methodology for S9

Nah

Last week (actual): - ECC meetings - meetings to brainstorm and align new project phase S9 - exploring the last VPN survey for new insights and next steps S101 - started to brainstorm use case and features for VPN - updated User Research portal website - many 1:1 to align and plan user research for this quarter

This week (planned): - Collect user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45 - Report user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46 - bring more use cases and features for VPN - think on ways to collaborate our User Research with other groups, and meeting with Sajolida to explore new paths in the same subject - (if have time) work on User Research Plan for volunteers

Nicob

Last week (actual): - First day and onboarding! - Read through mid-point deliverable of Brand Analysis from Berkeley Group - Explored design concepts for donate page banner

This week (planned): - More onboarding? - Exploring design concepts for blog post: Vanguard of Browser Privacy - Begin researching/exploring visual direction for comms 2022 - Design new wordmark & lockup for Tor browser - Read through Berkeley Group final deliverable

Joydeep (championquizzer) [Community Team work]

This week (planned): - user support work (priority this week: users in .ru and .kz) - Gitlab to-do/reviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&assignee_username=championquizzer

== 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