[tor-project] UX team meeting notes, January 18th

Tue Jan 18 20:40:41 UTC 2022

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.html <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.html <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%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>

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Tuesday January 18th 18:00 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>

== 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&assignee_username=championquizzer <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 at torproject.org <mailto:duncan at torproject.org>

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