Meetings

UX Meetings

Come and join our bi-weekly conversation and/or design review, on all things user experience for SecureDrop!

Thursdays 17:30 UTC, at https://meet.google.com/ekb-kkhf-mrk

If you're new please add an introduction to the team as an agenda item. If there's anything specific you'd like to discuss, please go ahead and add that to the agenda, too.

Next Meeting

02 Dec 2021

Call-Outs:

New items on the Prototypes Page!
- SDW Design System (in-progress; thx for the nudge to Gonzalo!)
- Seen By (in-progress)
- Export All (in-progress)
New Dangerzone!
- Micah says it's awesome, I have yet to test/download; Docker dependency almost removed... next release!

Design principles for SecureDrop (10-15min)
- Nina to present general scoop on Design Principles
- Review what were created for SD in 2019, that was recently updated
- Do we want to revisit or update these? If "Yes," let's do that next gathering!
""Inversion" SI with Replies (40min)

Past Meetings

22 Aug 2021
- _Review + Discuss 2 directions _
  - Figma file
12 Aug 2021
- Complete Figma workshop from the 22nd.
  - Figma file
  - UX Problem Solving Framework
22 July 2021
- Nina presents "How I solve UX problems" in GSlides deck, and then team co-design workshop on Source UI "Generate" page in Figma.
  - Figma file
  - UX Problem Solving Framework
24 August 2020
- Meetings 2020 08 24 (Read Unread)
09 Jul 2020
- Prototype Crit, against...
  - UxR Plan
  - UxR Script
- Updates from Allie and Nina on explorations into potential UxD Prototyping Tools.
22 Jun 2020
- Client Read/Unread workshop
16 Apr 2020
- Qubes cut-n-paste!
A few done in great haste, and then neglected to be noted for here... sorry!
13 Feb 2019
- "Machine on too long" Notification
- SD Workstation PR #445
12 Dec 2019
- UX kid sick, meeting canceled. :(
21 Nov 2019
- Nina drafted this GDoc
- Rad discussion around opportunities and needs within Qubes!
31 Oct 2019
- Discuss process for UX reviews of PRs
10 Oct 2019
- Reviewed research to date informing Source Profiles
- Discussed SUI research done in UserFeel
- Reviewed "Who's a whistleblower?" page
15 Aug 2019
- Reviewed "Get Codename" page/widget updates for 1.0.0
- Discussed in-progress 1.0.0 branding/logo update guidelines for Redmine circulation
08 Aug 2019
- Discussed SD Ecosystem identity updates w/ 1.0 rollout
01 Aug 2019
- Discuss UX feedback cycle structure, formats (optimizin' for better collab/results!)
- Present: 1.0 UI Things (Goals/Design Principles, Rev1 PR review, Rev2 critique)
24 July 2019
- Review 1.0 Release UX Goals
- Review Erik's PR-in-progress, of forthcoming color schema & facelift UI changes
17 July 2019
- Source UI UxR
- Workstation Print/Export
27 Jun 2019
- Next step priorities for Source UI beyond beyond #4500
  - What should be next? Review Nina's proposed priorities?
20 Jun 2019
- (10min) Quick Source UI check-in to review SD#4535
- Export flow (v3) for Workstation (notes at link)
13 Jun 2019
- Discussed forthcoming newsroom survey (notes at link)
- Discussed Tor alerts in Source UI
06 Jun 2019
- Source UI footer + Learn More page discussion w/ next-steps
- Discussions:
  - Creation of informationdesign label in main SD repo + outreach/engagement of volunteer design peeps
  - When to present SD as 1.x version numbering
  - Creation of #4500-3 Issues in SD repo; what their PRs will mean for the product, and likelihood of them making it that far.
- No meeting 31 May, sprint planning good times! -
23 May 2019
- David presents user observations from the training field
16 May 2019
- Flag For Reply in the Workstation Client
  - How to shift paradigms in communicating about this thing to users?
  - Language, interactions, states, and server behaviors—oh my!
09 May 2019
- Moar Source UI: Let's make some decisions...
  - Focus on TL;DR "How To Stay Safe" page that users may link-to from proposed footer
  - Not many concrete decisions made tho, sadly.
25 Apr + 02 May 2019
- Source UI deep-dive!
  - Within the existing experience architecture, what could we improve through small incremental changes?
  - Changes & ideas reviewed, endeavored by Nina over sporadically over several months to refine visual design system
  - Addressed recent flags wrt Tor messaging, multi-file uploads, the footer, Codename nomenclature & widget
  - TL;DR takeaway: Lots of immediately actionable opportunities. We also just need more darn data on Source users. <3
18 April 2019 — No meeting, Nina + Erik have external conflict
11 April 2019
- Design Review: Client color schema & design system refinement
04 April 2019 — No meeting, UX kid sick + Jen/Kushal at IFF
27 March 2019
- Design Review: Client VisDe, 5th rev
- Discussion: Moar Client particulars. Client, client, aack—we need to name the client!
21 March — SecureDrop Sprint Planning, no meeting
14 March 2019
- Design Review: Client VisDe, 4th rev
- Design Review: Client Reply + related task-y/network-y communicate-to-user things
07 March 2019
- Design Review: Workstation Briefcase/Export, 3rd rev
- Discussion: Eileen from SimplySecure joined to review observations from her Source Experience cognitive walkthru with Heartuscker
28 February 2019
- Design Review: Workstation Briefcase/Export Flow, 2nd rev
- Discussion: "Go back to (task)" link standardization in Source Experience
21 February 2019
- Design Review: Workstation Downloads
14 February 2019 <valentine>SecureDrop users, plz to be mine?</valentine>
- Design Review & Discussion: Source Experience, NoScript issue & user-facing messaging
07 February 2019
- Design Review: Workstation Briefcase Flow + Network Activity Indicator
- Discussion: Workstation, Seen/Unseen on files?
30 January 2019
- Discussion: Ongoing grant-ask things, "ecosystem ux" stuff across projects
24 January 2019 notesfail
17 January 2019
- Design Review: Workstation, VisDe progress
- Discussion: Workstation, logjams & network issues

2018

Note: the below pages all need their links updated to GitHub Markdown format, from MediaWiki. They could also use high-level bullets capturing what was presented or discussed, as is done above. FYI—we'd love the help with this! :)