[tor-project] UX team monthly meetings notes, December 7th

[Duncan Russell]

Hello,

Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again on January 11th, with an aim to resume <hopefully shorter> weekly team meetings thereafter.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html>

Today we discussed Tor Browser 11.0.1 for desktop's release and ongoing user support, shared an update on the UX Team’s search for a Brand Designer, listed some ways we can improve weekly project management within the team, and discussed the need to update our onboarding materials for volunteer user researchers.

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== Monthly User Experience Team Meeting ==

Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday January 11th at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:

December 7th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log.html>

Novemebr 9th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html>

October 12th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log.html>

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Tuesday December 7th 14:00 UTC
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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%93&state=opened&label_name <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%93&state=opened&label_name <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 ==

* Tor Browser 11.0.1 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/>
    
== Agenda ==

1. Tor Browser 11 post-launch update

Forum thread here: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656 <https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656>

2. Brand Designer hiring update

Job post here: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/ <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/>

3. UX Team Project Management – how can we improve it?

Roadmap & planning board: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0%3A1 <https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0:1>
UX Kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name=UX <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name=UX>

We decided to:
    
    - Restart weekly team meetings in January (at the same timeslot?)
    - Begin each team meeting with our todolists and a mini-ticket triage
    - Consider a separate label for UX team work (distinct from tpo UX issues) or otherwise optimize the UX kanban

4. Create research plan for volunteers

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51>

Todo list:

	- Create a new onboarding process for volunteers
	- Include two new research plans (one for desktop, one for mobile)
	- Send it to the mailing list
	- Include an open floor to share findings during the weekly meetings


== 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 at torproject.org <mailto:duncan at torproject.org>
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