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Blog posts with topic "design"

Inayaili de León Persson
3 January 2013

Designing the new Ubuntu for phone pages

Ubuntu Article

As you’ve probably seen, Canonical has just announced Ubuntu on phones. We’re all very excited about it, especially since so many of us have been working hard on this project. Here’s an insight into the design of the new phone pages on ubuntu.com. Deciding what to say The tricky part when designing pages to show ...

Canonical
2 January 2013

Ubuntu comes to the phone, with a beautifully distilled interface and a unique full PC capability when docked

Desktop News

Leading open PC platform with huge global following announces mobile version for network operators, OEMs and silicon vendors Fast, beautiful interface for entry level smartphones Unique PC experience on superphones when docked with a monitor, keyboard and mouse Ubuntu raises the bar for mobile UI design, for richer and more immersive apps ...

Canonical
30 November 2012

Design and arts in education

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu’s design team supports #includedesign, which is a important initiative – supported by many design organizations and companies. ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
23 November 2012

Solving design problems

Ubuntu Featured

To solve a design problem, define the target user, test the existing solution (if any), evaluate alternative solutions, and test with real users. The more of these steps you can follow, the better the results. ...

Canonical
5 November 2012

Back to Lecturing for the day

Ubuntu User Experience

In my last post, I spoke about my transition from academia to industry. One thing that I felt I would miss were the opportunities to speak to students, and watch their progression throughout the year. So when I was asked to go back to the University to give a talk, I jumped at the chance. ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

A fresh-looking Design Blog

Ubuntu Article

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally done it: the Design Blog has a new look! Let me take you through the main aspects we wanted to improve on. Why change? The last blog design was nearly four years old. With its small font sizes and crammed pages, the text was difficult to ...

Canonical
22 October 2012

The UDS Design Track

Ubuntu Notes

One week to go! We’re looking forward to UDS. For me personally it will be my first and I’m thrilled to check out all the interesting sessions and hear your stories about Ubuntu and design. There will also be a very exciting design track in which we hope to work together on many cool topics, ...

Canonical
14 September 2012

Academia vs Industry

Ubuntu User Experience

I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and I am finally getting up to speed with the working environment, the people and the atmosphere. So what differences have I noticed between the academic setting and the industrial setting? My biggest fear of moving ...

Canonical
5 September 2012

12.10 wallpaper selection finalised

Ubuntu Design

Here they are! Our lovely wallpapers for the 12.10 release of Ubuntu. Fine plumage I think you’ll agree! As you’ll have seen elsewhere on the web these landed in the release at the time of the freeze last week. A massive thanks to everyone who contributed, the standard was very high this time around, people ...

Canonical
28 August 2012

12.10 shortlist so far

Ubuntu Design

12.10 shortlist, a gallery on Flickr. Today the group closed on submissions for the 12.10 wallpaper selection. The team of us involved are still working to add/ remove and refine this collection before the 30th. We’ve got a few more than our 10 target, we’ll review this number tomorrow based on quality and what we ...

Anthony Dillon
24 August 2012

Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript

Ubuntu Development

I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This post is about what I did and how to get some sample code if you want to use or extend it for yourself. The XML The ...

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