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[tor-project] UX team monthly meeting notes, Feb 22nd



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 March 1st.

Here are the minutes:


Today we shared an update on our progress with various projects across the team, chatted about stickers, discussed the addition of a “Research” tag to the forum for future user surveys, and considered the potential impact pasting large numbers of bridge lines has on Tor’s bootstrapping speed.

== 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 February 22nd:

== Useful links ==

About the UX Team:

UX repository:

UX roadmap:

UX kanban:

Team kanban:

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Tuesday February 22nd 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

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet

S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android

== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser Alpha 11.5a4 release (desktop only):

== Agenda ==

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

Last week (actual):
    - Dev support for S96 (torconnect)
    - Discussed process for selecting alpha features to go into stable for Tor Browser
    - Reviewed & fed back on the call for participation for S101 (VPN)
    - Finished the tor-qa survey
    - Quarterly meetings with sponsors
    - afk on Friday

This week (planned):
    - afk on Monday
    - Test and feed back on the most recent build for S96 (torconnect)
    - Start work on additional designs for S96 (torconnect)
    - Launch & distribute the tor-qa survey
    - Chase feedback for user stories for S101 (VPN)
    - Continue breadboards for S101 (VPN)
    - More quarterly meetings with sponsors

On ice:
    - Review everything currently assigned to me under "Needs Review", including the UX Research report template

Nah

Last week (actual):
    - S9 survey to find human rights defenders’ challenges and needs. Status: creating questionnaire on limesurvey in spanish and english, trying to make it look better, sharing with S9 partners.
    * Study and summarize our User Research material to create a primer to share with S9 partners: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/61
    - S30 call for participation is live! Sharing with communities in Brazil and Mexico, and planning User Research (both for Tor and Orbot)
    - S101 interviews planning. Status: creating the questionnaire on Limesurvey.
    - S96: starting to research/plan our next activities
    
This week (planned):
    - Recruit more participants for VPN interviews (S101)
    - Plan and test a card sorting structure for VPN features survey (S101)
    - Work on the User Research primer 
    - Meet and discuss User Reserch activities for the upcoming digital autodefense cicle of activities (S30)

Nicob

Last week (actual):
    - Further exploration of icon concepting
    - NYT new member renewal graphic
    - Onion sticker re-design sketching
    - Edits to partner logos for trainings page (Gus)
    - SVG icon test for localization (Emmapeel)
    - Started gathering similar org annual reports for research/inspiration

This week (planned):
    - continued sketching/exploration of glyphs
    - continue research for Comms 22 vis direction

== Open Call for User Research ==

Find out how to contribute to the UX team:


Thanks everyone!

***

Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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