[tor-bugs] #25658 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor Browser's security features

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#25658: Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor
Browser's security features
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 Reporter:  isabela                        |          Owner:  antonela
     Type:  project                        |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  High                           |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, TorBrowserTeam201804  |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                                 |        Sponsor:  Sponsor17
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Comment (by tom):

 Hm. Perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong part of your comment;, but as I was
 looking through
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/25658/25658-exploration%202.png
 I was in agreement that none of them really illustrated the visual
 feedback.

 The one with the words Standard / Safer / Safest did of course; because
 it's making it explicit.

 The rest of them had no indicator to me that
 a) This state was 'partial' - e.g. that there was a better state to be in.
 b) That this state was 'the best'.

 Okay 3 dots is better than 1 dot. How do I know that there is something
 better than 1 dot? How do I know there is not a four-dot setting?

 Shield, half-shield... and the checkerboard shield... these could both be
 stylist choices. I don't know the shield is supposed to be full.

 Until I saw the grey shield on the far right. Th one where it looks like
 it's filling a progress bar. That one immediately resonated with me
 (personally at least.)  It's a progress bar. It fills up.

 If you make the full shield have the small white lines so it's indicative
 of three 'bars' that filled up it's more apparent. It might be even more
 apparent if you render it in stark color (black or purple, with the
 unfilled boxes being light grey.

 Heck, if we want to animate it, we could blink the filled or unfilled
 progress bars.

 Anyway, I just wanted to point out that that one in particular jumped out
 to me and felt the most right of the icons you had initially explored.

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