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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Inayaili de León Persson
11 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception. Ubuntu.com was already using a carefully refined and tested typographic scale that we have evolved over the years. Early in the project, we had decided that the large screen view ...

Canonical
10 June 2014

Malta Sprint

Ubuntu User Experience

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and ...

Canonical
9 June 2014

Cueing up users

Ubuntu Featured

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed settings, controls, and views through the bottom edge, app developers have a powerful tool for crafting more useful and usable experiences. In earlier postings we’ve talked about how t ...

Inayaili de León Persson
6 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches! We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation in ubuntu.com. This included rethinking not only the main navigation with first, second and third level links, but also a big 3-tier footer and global navigation. Desktop size main na ...

Inayaili de León Persson
29 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making our grid responsive (8)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. A big part of converting our existing fixed-width desktop site to be responsive was to make sure we had a flexible grid that would flow seamlessly from small to large screens. From the start, we decided that we were going to approach the move as ...

Inayaili de León Persson
23 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: approach to content (7)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. If you’re transitioning a fixed-width website into a responsive one with several time and resource constraints, updating all your content to be mobile-friendly will likely not be an option. It’s important to understand what your constraints are and work within them. This is w ...

Inayaili de León Persson
22 May 2014

Latest from the web team — May 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re fast approaching the summer, and the first few sunny days have already arrived in London. The web team cannot slow its pace though… In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Responsive ubuntu.com: we’ve had a sprint to clean up our processes and CSS files after the big responsive release last month Ubuntu.com: we’ve ...

Carla Berkers
20 May 2014

Sticky notes and a mobile first approach

Ubuntu User Experience

As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help users assess and choose solutions we felt it would be useful to improve the visual presentation of charm and bundle details on manage.jujucharms.com. While we ...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss our findings and plan the work for the following weeks. Planning and scoping was tricky because we had to balance the work required to make the site responsive with ...

Canonical
15 May 2014

The browser is dead. Long live the browser!

Ubuntu User Experience

With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even dismissed it as ‘dead’. Who cares about websites and webapps when you can deliver a superior user experience with a native app? Well, we care because the reality is a ...

Alejandra Obregon
9 May 2014

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…

Ubuntu User Experience

Last week a few of us flew to Las Vegas for a Juju sprint at the world-famous Flamingo casino (where Hunter S. Thompson stayed in Fear and Loathing). It was the first time in Las Vegas for most of us so we weren’t quite sure what to expect… And while there were plenty of distractions ...

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