Blog posts tagged
"Research"

Oliver Smith
29 August 2023

How New Mexico State University accelerates compliant federal research with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

New federal compliance rules meant that NMSU Physical Science Laboratory needed a new operating system. Learn more about why they chose Ubuntu. ...

Will Grant
9 June 2021

The story of a feature: “View my invoices”

Design Article

In this blog post, I’ll do a deep dive into the process of designing a small feature on ubuntu.com – from the original need, right through the design phase until it’s handed over to engineering. It intends to give you a good high-level overview of how we do user experience (UX) design at Canonical on ...

Canonical
8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

Canonical announcements Article

New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, on ...

Will Grant
15 April 2021

Transcribing user interviews with Amazon Transcribe

Design Article

A quick ‘how to’ on using Amazon’s Transcribe service to turn user interview recordings into text-transcripts. ...

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

Cloud and server User Experience

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the ...

Canonical
7 May 2012

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

Ubuntu Research

Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design problems for a change. Starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Monday 7 May 2012, you can join us for the next Ubuntu Design Theatre at the Ubuntu Developer ...

Canonical
19 April 2012

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Ubuntu Research

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the Ubuntu Arabic for the Ubuntu Font Family and from tomorrow you will be able to see that work for yourself. Until ...

Canonical
2 March 2012

About Usability Testing – Recruiting

Ubuntu Article

Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our progress towards achieving a great user experience with Ubuntu. Last testing took place in October 2011. I am now preparing for testing 12.04 to take place a couple of weeks from ...

Canonical
4 August 2011

Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing

Ubuntu User Experience

Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken some highlights from the report to compose this blog. Setting of the usability session The sessions took place in early June at the Canonical Office in London. Thirty participants were recruited. All of them used ...

Canonical
22 April 2011

Unity Benchmark Usability – April 2011

Ubuntu Research

First and last impressions of Unity were that it was quite user-friendly, and pleasing in its design and ease of learning. The majority of participants left the session with very positive feelings and were looking forward to Unity’s release so they could download it. In short, participants in this testing session were considerably more po ...

Canonical
16 February 2011

Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!

Cloud and server Research

I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to observe the sessions. It was very useful to get his feedback and to work collaboratively with him on the analysis and implications of the findings. In addition to ...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Ubuntu Research

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects to understand how d ...

Blog posts tagged "Research"

Blog posts tagged
"Research"