Team

Project ID: 52

UX meta-issues and team management.

About us

Hi, Oi, Hola 👋

Our mission is to make Tor usable for everyone by promoting the principles of human-centered design throughout the Tor Project, and the wider community too. Though small, we're a full-stack design team encompassing the following disciplines:

User experience (UX) and product design
Ethical user research
Brand design

We hold weekly meetings to share what we're working on and plan our tasks for the coming week every Monday at 1600 UTC. Guests with an interest in the usability of censorship-circumvention and privacy preserving technology are always welcome. If you'd like to join, please reach out via one of the communication methods listed below.

Team members

The UX Team includes volunteers from across the globe who collaborate with the following core contributors:

name	role	email	IRC
Duncan	UX Team Lead	duncan at torproject dot org	donuts
Nah	User Researcher	nah at torproject dot org	nah
Nico	Brand Designer	nicob at torproject dot org	nicob
Jag	Product Designer	jag at torproject dot org	jagtalon

If you'd like to contribute to open user research at the Tor Project, please see our checklist for new volunteers and join us at one of our future team meetings.

How to reach us

Text-based chat

UX Team members are active in the #tor-ux IRC channel on the OFTC network, and the equivalent matrix channel #tor-ux:matrix.org, on weekdays from around 1400–2200 UTC. However, please keep any discussion on these channels on-topic, and see #tor for general user support instead.

Email

We can be reached privately via the email alias ux-team at torproject dot org.

On the forum

We're also active on the Tor Project forum. Although there isn't a dedicated section for the UX Team, we typically monitor and reply to posts in the Tor Browser Feedback, Tor Browser Alpha Feedback and Website Feedback sections, alongside recent Tor Browser release posts within the News section.

Current priorities

For the next year, our priorities are to:

Support the design and development of the Tor VPN.
Conduct qualitative, community-focused user research in China, Latin America and East Africa.
Release Tor Browser 12.5 and 13.0 featuring product improvements based on empirical research.
Improve developer hand-off, standardize our development cycles and document our design/development methodology.
Update and expand our product design libraries and tooling.
Refresh the Tor brand and release an updated styleguide.
Continue to elevate fundraising, outreach and communications efforts with the power of design.

Funded projects

Here's what we're working on right now:

Useful links

Project management

UX Kanban: Tracks all issues that impact Tor's user experience across the organization.
Team Kanban: Tracks the issues currently assigned to the UX Team (including upcoming tasks).
UX Team Roadmap: An overview of the team's quarterly roadmap and priorities.
UX Repository: Home to all the UX-related tickets and public files that don't belong in a specific repo.