Hi everybody,
[Putting tails-dev in copy once so they know this info is available.]
So we had a session at the IFF about the UX of connecting to Tor in
Tails. Despite being scheduled on the last day of the festival, many
people attended: Tails contributors, Tor developers, UX experts, people
from Subgraph, SecondMuse, etc.
I showed 15 mockups of screenshots that I prepared during the week and I
asked everybody to write down comments on post-it notes (doubts, UX
issues, technical issues, privacy issues, suggestions, etc.) to gather
as much feedback as possible while avoiding bias from group dynamics.
The mockups build on the work done at Tor dev in Berlin and over this
list. They also introduce a bunch of crazy new ideas that I know my
engineering friends will freak out about (like spoofing MAC spoofing in
the session or autoconfiguration of Tor).
The idea here was not to come up with a pragmatic implementation program
but to explore what an ideal UX could be so we can later on discuss how
to correlate this with the resources we have and probably have to find
some middle ground.
You can find the material about the session here:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/network_connection#iff
The next steps for me would be to:
- Show this to my engineering friends (early April)
- Further process the feedback from the notes (no ETA)
Between the preparatory work and the session itself, I think we did a
huge amount of work but honestly, I don't know when I will have time to
really follow up on this (as I'm super busy with tons of other things).
So feel free to have a look and mature all this in your head but don't
count of me to follow up on lengthy threads and heated debates right now.
And a huge thanks to Ame Elliott and Susan Farrell who helped me frame
the session. I had nothing prepared when I arrived in Valencia :/
