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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Inayaili de León Persson
2 May 2017

April’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017: Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’ Mockuuups Studio & Sketch Reasons to conference 2017: Design, Code & Create Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Simple Icons On conference proposal rejections Implementing system f ...

Anthony Dillon
25 April 2017

Designing in the open

Ubuntu User Experience

Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories, and therefore sharing the entire design process with the world. One of the main things we wanted to improve was the design sign off process whilst increasing visibility for ...

Inayaili de León Persson
4 April 2017

What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Ubuntu Research

Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and really wanted to give the method a try, following the book to the letter. In this post I will outline what we’ve learned from our ...

Inayaili de León Persson
3 April 2017

March’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In Great README A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day Design Better Cards Chat Systems Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 March 2017

February’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017: Write Good linter for Atom Land Lines – Chrome Experiments Better Web Typography for a Better Web Fast Good Cheap Data Visualizations by Herwig Scherabon How Flexbox works—explained with big, colorful, animated gifs Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting GitHub’s Open Sourc ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 February 2017

January’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern patter. CLARK FROM INVISION, FOREVER! The Imbalance of Culture Fit a big list of good news from 2016 Calculate the ideal height of your ergonomic desk, chair ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 January 2017

December’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

We hope everyone has had a great start to the year and fun holiday season. Here are the best links shared by the design team during the last month of 2016: Creating a Weekly Research Cadence We’ve updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2016

November’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of November: BARBICAN | Urban Poetry The Future of Web Education A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award Ten things I wish I knew as a UX ...

Tom Macfarlane
7 November 2016

Yakkety Yak

Ubuntu Featured

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development – head detail Final Yak Colourways T-shirt design ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

October’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New York City and online Halloween Costumes for Designers The Worst Portfolio Ever The Sanctity of Your Calendar Using Normal doors to inform your next design ...

Joseph Williams
20 October 2016

Working to make Juju more accessible

Ubuntu Notes

In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to ...

Grazina Borosko
20 October 2016

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

Ubuntu Featured

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases following Xenial Xerus. You can read about our wallpaper visual design process here. Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak (light version) ...

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