17:59:21 #startmeeting ux weekly sync 17:59:21 Meeting started Tue Jan 18 17:59:21 2022 UTC. The chair is donuts. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:59:21 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 17:59:30 hello o/ 17:59:32 Hello and welcome to this week's UX Team meeting :) 17:59:36 o/ 17:59:39 helloooo 17:59:46 The new pad is located here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ux-team-2022-keep 17:59:57 please add anything you'd like to discuss to the end of the agenda 18:00:11 hey championquizzer! 18:00:48 I'm going to fire through the announcements real quick 18:01:19 the 11.0.4 release went out a few hours after our last team meeting, and I've not observed any major issues there 18:01:44 11.5a2 should be released soon too for wider testing 18:02:00 Hello everyone! 18:02:13 note that the missing features bug won't make it into that alpha, but should get circulated as part of 11.5a3 (whenever that is) 18:02:32 this one, for ref: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40679 18:02:40 hi likeanushkaa, welcome! 18:03:11 next: we're glad to announce that brand designer nicob is the newest addition to the ux team! welcome nicob! 18:03:30 woo! welcome to Tor, nicob \o/ 18:03:33 yay, welcome nicob! :) 18:03:37 hi everyone! thanks for the warm welcome! :) 18:04:15 okay let's take 5 minutes to update the weekly planning section of the pad 18:04:48 please also take the opportunity to quickly review any tickets assigned to you on the team kanban too, and shift any that need shifted 18:04:52 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team 18:08:04 As a reminder, please highlight anything you'd like to discuss in the weekly planing section in **bold** 18:08:48 brb, grabbing some tea real quick – so you've got an extra minute! 18:09:07 Thankyou donim I'muts... (full message at https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/DeGyTnnnLUEnQBbrdDmejjcg) 18:11:39 we're glad to have you back likeanushkaa! what kind of contribution do you think you'd be best placed to help with? i.e. UX design, brand design, user research etc. 18:11:42 likeanushkaa: hey! wb! 18:12:37 hola :) 18:12:39 nicob, nah: can you look over my planned list for this week and let me know if anything needs added there so I'm not blocking you? 18:12:46 hey josernitos! welcome back too! 18:13:12 otherwise, looks like everyone's done with the work updates 18:13:14 all good on my side, donuts 18:13:24 hola josernitos 18:13:30 hi likeanushkaa! 18:13:30 looks good to me donuts 18:13:56 fantastic 18:14:02 * donuts checks the agenda... 18:14:09 hi josernitos, hi likeanushkaa! 18:14:17 oh looks like you have an item highlighted nicob 18:14:22 donuts: I consider myself a design generalist, but I would like to contribute more towards UX research and design, the primary areas of interest for me right now. 18:14:24 would you like to chat about that first, before we move on? 18:14:28 sure 18:14:43 good to be back. o/ donuts, nah, nicob 18:14:52 championquizzer @_oftc_championquizzer:matrix.org: hey hi! Thanks for the welcome:)) 18:15:05 likeanushkaa: great, thanks for confirming! feel free to catch up on our processes and documentation on both the pad and team homepage for now, and we can find a task for you to contribute to at the next team meeting :) 18:15:13 Hello everyone, and thanks for the warm welcome too! 18:15:23 I think I linked to everything in my last email, but let me know if you need them again! 18:15:50 nicob: feel free to go ahead! 18:16:04 Sure, thankyou so much for all the help donuts ! 18:16:12 I replied in the ticket last night, I think the concepts look great 18:16:31 just wanted to check on timeline, I knot it gitlab it had a deadline of today. I have to log off by 2100 UTC today and I know we're still waiting to hear back from other folks on concept direction. Should I just get started on #5? 18:16:35 I'd like to let Comms have a say too, so I've looped in al and isa 18:17:01 nicob: yeah feel free to disregard the due date for now, it looks like the draft post isn't final yet anyway 18:17:10 let's take a quick look at your kanban... 18:17:15 okay, sounds good! 18:17:48 okay I have a couple of other tasks I can assign over in the interim 18:18:39 please feel free to chip away at anything in the backlog too :) 18:19:05 okay! I was planning on getting started on some moodboarding/exploration for comms visual direction 18:19:09 there's no real priority there, so whatever catches your eye 18:19:13 sounds great! 18:19:40 your welcome likeanushkaa, thanks for being here! 18:19:50 next up: UX mailing list deprecation 18:20:44 following the conversation that's happening around moving tor-talk to the forum, I've proposed we do the same for the UX mailing list 18:21:04 please feel free to review the plan and add your opinion to the ticket too: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/issues/73 18:21:38 Nah has made a good point that we'll need to decide _where_ in the forum we post to instead of the UX mailing list 18:22:50 I think it would be useful first to create a list of the kinds of topics we'd like to engage the community on? 18:23:08 for example, product feedback, calls for participation in user research, team meeting minutes etc. 18:23:13 anything else? 18:23:36 volunteering to the ux team 18:23:58 like a periodic call for volunteers? 18:24:18 here's the link to the forum for anyone who's not familiar: https://forum.torproject.net/ 18:24:47 The UX team currently monitors release posts and the Tor Browser feedback categories, plus dips in and out of the support and general discussion categories 18:25:28 would this be an appropriate space to add a topic for users to give feedback on visual design? 18:25:43 hmm i was actually thinking about a place where ppl would try to find more information about how to volunteer 18:26:19 nicob: If we wanted to open something up to community feedback, for sure! although there are pros and cons to doing so in unstructured sessions 18:26:36 another topic: publishing public reports, sharing research (from other gruops/academic) about tor 18:26:46 nah: would that not be the community portal (re: volunteering)? 18:26:52 although we could do a sticky somewhere pointing to it 18:27:37 I wonder if we need something between news and general discussion 18:27:52 for like, team updates etc. 18:28:00 donuts: absolutely. maybe not the right venue for unstructured feedback, but would love to figure out a way to include users more in the future for brand evolution 18:28:32 nah: at the moment, it seems like other teams are using general discussion actually 18:28:34 see this for reference: https://forum.torproject.net/t/anti-censorship-team-updates-from-september-and-october-2021/630 18:28:40 currently, we instruct volunteers to join our weekly meeting and the mailing list to inform where they want to volunteer 18:28:44 and: https://forum.torproject.net/t/updates-from-the-network-team-october-2021/442 18:28:45 ah! 18:29:07 i'm not sure how replicating the mailing list should be done (as we haven't done this yet) but i think it would be good to have just one new category (say, 'UX') and welcome everyone to post there 18:29:13 maybe we could do monthly updates that rolls some of this stuff together? 18:29:27 rather than segragating into multiple categories.. 18:29:36 much like how it was on the mailing list 18:29:45 nicob: yep! last time I think this was done with a mass-audience was for the Tor Browser app icon 18:30:01 monthly updates looks good, donuts 18:30:32 championquizzer: yeah that's the other option, although I wonder if it's necessary 18:31:01 let's maybe start with calls for research/participation within feedback, and general team updates within general discussion? 18:31:54 sounds good to me 18:32:12 and if it becomes too much we can always discuss again 18:32:32 great, I'll update the ticket – we can shift our approach over time too, and I'll continue to send meeting minutes to the mailing list in the meantime 18:32:46 * donuts checks the agenda... 18:33:06 looks like that's the last item on the list, is there anything else anyone would like to discuss today? 18:33:44 I'm hearing crickets 18:34:17 In that case, feel free to add your view to the Deprecate UX mailing list ticket :) 18:34:25 otherwise, I'll see you all elsewhere on IRC 18:34:33 hehe no, all good, thanks donuts and team! 18:34:39 have a great week everyone! 18:34:44 thanks all! have a good week 18:34:52 thanks donuts! 18:34:57 great week to everyone 18:35:00 #endmeeting