[tor-project] UX team meeting notes, April 12th

Duncan Russell duncan at botany.studio
Tue Apr 19 14:08:57 UTC 2022 

Hello,

Thanks to everyone who made it to last week's UX Team meeting!  Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-0 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html>4-1 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html>2-16.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html>

Note: Starting today, UX Team meetings will be happening 1 hour earlier at a new time of 1600 UTC.

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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.2022-0 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html>4-1 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-12-16.59.log.html>2-16.59.log.html <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%3A1 <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%93&label_name[]=UX <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[]=UX%20Team <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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Tuesday April 12th @ 17:00 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=Sponsor%209&label_name=UX <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=Sponsor%2030&label_name=UX <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 ==

New meeting time starting next week: 1600 UTC

New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.10 (Windows, macOS, Linux)
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11010/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11010/>

== Agenda ==

Evergreen items:

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

== Weekly planning ==

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

duncan/donuts

Last week (actual):
    - Reviewed and updated the team kanban with gaba
    - Read and reviewed first transcript from current round of S30 usability testing
    - Posted new iteration of torconnect designs in applications/tor-browser#40781
    - Continued design-QA of torconnect in applications/tor-browser#40773
    - Closed the tor-qa survey and posted results in ux/research#67
This week (planned):
    - Combine, dedupe and finalize the two bridge-moji shortlists in tor-browser#40860
    - Create new tickets for buildable elements of tor-browser#40773
    - Test new connection features in 11.5a8 and post feedback
    - Start to consider the next steps for tor-qa in applications/team#6
    - Maybe design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885
    - Quarterly reports for funders

^ Half of this will spillover to next week

Nah

Last week (actual):
    - sent compensation to s9 interviewees (need to send more!)
    - send t-shirts to s30 testing volunteers (check with gus)
    - did one usability testing and interview sessions for s30
    - scheduled usability testing and interview sessions (mexico)
    - training and collecting feedback on tuesday evening
    - training and collecting feedback on saturday morning
    - transcribed and translated s30 usability testing (portuguese)
    - did more 2 s9 interviews (spanish)

This week (planned):
    - review s9 ToR
    - start analysing s30 feedback (start with spanish): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/79 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/79>
    - last s30 training (cycle of training) today!
    - review s9 follow up, and send compensation to s9 interviewees
    - transcribe and translate s9 interviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/77 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/77>
    - schedule s30 usability testing (mex)
    - more s30 usability testing (mex and br): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/78 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/78>
    - check feedback on the VPN interview script
    - attending to "Obfuscated VPN: Lessons Learned and Future Work"
    
    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 1/2 day friday
    - USAGM 
        - RTL screens
        - Responsive screens (tablet, mobile) for LTR and RTL
        - Component states
        - Expanded screens
        - Started design QA with Kez

This week (planned):
    - USAGM
        - Design QA with kez
        - S123 meeting
    - Annual report
        - Begin dropping in content from Al
        - Exploring layout design
        - Identify + brainstorm illustrations/graphics/components to be developed

Imauri
 
This week:
    - Awaiting schedule for upcoming VPN study interviews (s101)
 
Last week:
    - Reviewed interview script for VPN study (s101)

Joydeep

ref. Check-in with User Support
    - user support report for March 2022 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-April/003338.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-April/003338.html>

== 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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