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## User Experience Team Overview
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Hi, Oi, Hola 👋
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Hi, Oi, Hola :wave:
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We are practicing human-centered design while building and empowering the Tor community. It aims to make Tor usable for everyone. We act as a bridge between the development teams and our users. Most of the time, we work on things like visual design, user interface design, user experience design, and ethical user research.
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Our mission is to make Tor usable for everyone by promoting the principles of human-centered design throughout both the Tor Project, and the wider community too. Though small, we're a full-stack design team that encompasses the following disciplines:
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* Experience (UX) design
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* Product (UI) design
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* Ethical user research
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* Brand design
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## People
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The UX Team includes volunteers from across the globe who collaborate with the following core contributors:
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| name | position | email | IRC |
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| Duncan | UX Team Lead | duncan at torproject dot org | donuts |
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| Nah | User Researcher | nah at torproject dot org | nah |
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| Antonela | Core Contributor | antonela at torproject dot org | antonela |
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If you'd like to contribute to open user research at the Tor Project, we'd love to have you! Please see our [checklist for new volunteers](https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/) and join us at one of our future team meetings.
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## Communication
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We hold open IRC meetings monthly **every first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC** [in #tor-meeting on OFTC](https://www.torproject.org/about/contact.html.en#irc). If you've never been on IRC before, [here are some instructions to get started](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam#Communication).
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We discuss topics related to ethical user research, open design, user interface design, user experience design, human-centered design methodologies, and anything about collective design.
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### IRC
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We hold open meetings on IRC **every Tuesday at 1700 UTC** [in #tor-meeting on the OFTC network](https://www.torproject.org/about/contact.html.en#irc). <span dir="">User Experience team meetings are an open space for discussion about ethical user research, user interface design and the user experience of privacy-enhancing products.</span> If you've never been on IRC before, [here are some instructions to get started](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam#Communication).
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Should you be unable to attend a UX Team meeting but would still like to reach out on IRC, you can find us lurking in the **#tor-ux** channel on weekdays from around 1400–2200 UTC. However, please keep any discussion in this channel on-topic, and see #tor for general user support instead.
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Our asynchronous medium of communication is the [mailing list](https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ux). This list is public in the sense that anyone can subscribe, send emails, and read archives. Feel free to subscribe and just listen if you want, and feel free to post if you want to say something that you think is on topic.
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### By email
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## Projects
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Our asynchronous medium of communication is the [mailing list](https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ux). This list is public in the sense that anyone can subscribe, send emails and read the archives. Please feel free to subscribe regardless of whether you'd like to participate in the conversation directly, or just lurk and listen.
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Alternatively, if you'd like to email the team privately please use our team alias: ux-team at torproject dot org.
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### On the forum
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We're also active on the [Tor Project forum](https://forum.torproject.net/). Although there isn't a dedicated section for the UX Team, we typically monitor and reply to posts in the [Tor Browser Feedback](https://forum.torproject.net/c/feedback/tor-browser-feedback/7), [Tor Browser Alpha Feedback](https://forum.torproject.net/c/feedback/tor-browser-alpha-feedback/6) and [Website Feedback](https://forum.torproject.net/c/feedback/websites-feedback/9) sections, alongside recent Tor Browser release posts within the [News](https://forum.torproject.net/c/news/11) section.
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## Sponsored projects
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Here's what we're working on right now:
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* [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)
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* [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)
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* [Tor Browser Security, Performance, & Usability Improvements ](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2058)
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* [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%5B%5D=Sponsor%209)
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* [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%5B%5D=Sponsor%2030)
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* [<span dir="">Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet</span>](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24)
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* [<span dir="">Tor VPN Client for Android</span>](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32)
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## Useful links
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## Localization
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### Project management
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We work with Localizatoin Lab on [localization](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/wikis/home).
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* [UX kanban](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&label_name\[\]=UX): Tracks all issues that impact Tor's user experience across the organization.
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* [UX Team Roadmap](https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=0%3A1): Gantt chart illustrating the team's quarterly roadmap in weekly increments.
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* [UX Repository](https://gitlab.torproject.org/ux)
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## Tools
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### Other resources
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* [Tor Personas](https://community.torproject.org/user-research/persona/)
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* [Tor Styleguide](https://styleguide.torproject.org/)
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* [User Research](https://community.torproject.org/user-research)
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* [User Research Repo](https://gitlab.torproject.org/ux/research)
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* [Tor Styleguide](https://styleguide.torproject.org/) (legacy)
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* [User Research portal](https://community.torproject.org/user-research)
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## Archive
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https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/UxTeam/Misc
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