[tor-project] UX team meeting notes, January 25th

[Duncan Russell]

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 February 1st.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01- <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html>25-16 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html>.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html>

Today we shared the study UCL are currently running on HTTPS-only modes in Tor Browser, and discussed each UX team-member's ongoing work across key projects.


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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 25th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01- <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html>25-16 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.log.html>.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-25-16.59.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 25th 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>

== Announcements ==

* Survey on HTTPS Only Modes in Tor Browser:
https://forum.torproject.net/t/survey-on-https-only-modes-in-tor-browser/1808 <https://forum.torproject.net/t/survey-on-https-only-modes-in-tor-browser/1808>

== Agenda ==

1. Announcements
2. Weekly planning

== Weekly planning ==

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

Duncan

Last week (actual):
	- Finished nicob's onboarding
	- Reviewed and closed old torconenct-related tickets
	- Created new tickets for the next VPN objectives: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32>
	- Updated the Android VPN product brief doc
	- Met to discuss applications QA
	- Wrote draft script for tor-qa survey: ux/research#67

This week (planned):
	- Recap tor-browser#19850 and get it back on the roadmap
	- Support torconnect development
	- Continue prepwork for the next VPN tasks

Nah

Last week (actual):
	- 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>
	- I was sick, so this wasn't a very productive week

This week (planned):
	- think on ways to collaborate our User Research with other groups, and meeting with Sajolida to explore new paths in the same subject
	- Update User Research repository
	- (if have time) work on User Research Plan for volunteers
	- S9 proposal meeting and review
	- S101 review studies, use cases and features

Nicob

Last week (actual):
	- Finished final design for Vanguard blog post
	 - Began researching similar orgs branding 
	- Started working on a UR report template
	- More onboarding

This week (planned):
	- Continue working on UR report template
	- Begin artwork for Data Privacy & Safer Internet days
	- Begin artwork for YEC wrap-up blog post

== 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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