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Canonical
17 September 2010

This week in design – 17 September 2010

Ubuntu Notes

Photo by Ralph courtesy of Flickr Normally we spend a lot of time thinking about how to work on things in a an open way. This week the big news was all about closure as the final freeze on the desktop for 10.10 is now upon us. This means that we enter a period of ...

Canonical
16 September 2010

Canonical announces provisional Ubuntu Developer Summit tracks

Desktop News

Canonical announces provisional Ubuntu Developer Summit tracks Held in October, UDS Tracks & Details Available on Newly-Launched uds.ubuntu.com Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, unveiled the a list of provisional tracks for the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) scheduled for October 25-29, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. To be confi ...

Canonical
15 September 2010

It’s all about Greek

Ubuntu Design

We are familiar with the Latin alphabet; we are used to seeing it’s forms and shapes and we read it without thinking. When we design Latin fonts, we can rely on our intuition and experience to create the letter shapes; we feel when a character is right or wrong. When designing a non-Latin typeface we ...

Canonical
14 September 2010

Getting physical

Ubuntu Design

Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there are several ways a person can control a computer besides keyboards, mice and touch screens. These days there are many alternatives, obviously based on hardware sensors, and the main ...

Canonical
13 September 2010

Screens everywhere

Ubuntu Design

This is a fabulous little invention especially as I’m a keen cyclist in the city.Nicked from Steve Clayton’s fabulous blog. ...

Canonical
10 September 2010

This week in design – 10 September 2010

Ubuntu Design

I don’t want to sound like a broken record but “PHEW! What a week”. Next Thursday will be our final freeze for Maverick. After this point it’s full steam ahead bug fixing, checking translations and making sure everything is ready for the release on the 10th Ocotober. The main news from the design team is ...

Canonical
10 September 2010

Which way to slant the Hebrew

Ubuntu Design

Here is a design conundrum: which way to lean the Hebrew Italic design. Logic, and probably common sense, would dictate that it should slant in the reading direction. However, I think we have to consider wider implications on this issue, and I would like to ask for the community’s opinion on this issue. Personally, I ...

Canonical
10 September 2010

Third update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

Ubuntu Design

Still Andrea Cimitan, still good news for you 🙂 This is a small blog post to list few of the changes we did to light-themes: Menuitem speedup, hurray!!! 😀 Subtle shadow on inactive notebook’s tabs White text color on GtkProgressBar Increased visibility of the resize gripper Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar More compatibi ...

Inayaili de León Persson
10 September 2010

dConstruct 2010

Ubuntu Notes

Once again Brighton-based Clearleft prepared something special for those who attended this year’s dConstruct conference. Ivanka and myself had the pleasure to be amongst the lucky ones who managed to grab a ticket. The line-up was formed by some of the most prominent names in design thinking: Brendan Dawes David McCandless Hannah Donovan ...

Canonical
9 September 2010

Charactersets

Ubuntu Design

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu typeface. Where do you begin, where do you stop? In the case of the Ubuntu font project, the second part of the question is easily answered – when all the glyphs ...

Inayaili de León Persson
9 September 2010

Allow me to introduce myself…

Ubuntu Notes

My name’s Inayaili (most people call me either Yaili or Lily though) and I’m the new web designer in the Canonical’s design team — just started last Tuesday. It was a busy and exciting week: lots of meetings to become familiar with the company and with everyone working here in the Millbank headquarters, and, of ...

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