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Canonical
20 May 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 brings dramatic graphical performance enhancements

Desktop News

Ubuntu 13.04 includes the Developer Preview SDK for developers to build native applications for Ubuntu devices. ...


Canonical
16 May 2013

Shorts, the RSS reader app

Ubuntu Notes

As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience might be for Ubuntu. The contexts of reading varies from libraries to magazine stands to the sofa in your lounge, and these each have an impact on ...


Matthew Paul Thomas
16 May 2013

System Settings for Ubuntu Phone

Ubuntu Notes

The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the overview screen, and designing many individual settings screens. ...


Alejandra Obregon
13 May 2013

Ubuntu.com update

Ubuntu Design

I’d like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website. Earlier in the year we worked on an evolution of Ubuntu.com to reflect the expanded scope of the project in the main site structure. Our re-structuring conversations went beyond ...


Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Ubuntu Article

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined ...


Canonical
1 May 2013

Weather & Clock app visual exploration

Ubuntu Notes

Thank you for all your positive feedback after our first blog post. We are very excited and are continuing with the designs, here’s a quick update on how we’re getting on. During the last few weeks we have been looking at the development of the weather and clock apps. We are also looking at set ...


Canonical
26 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 in context

Cloud and server Article

The past couple of years have seen a fundamental shift in the way enterprise IT is done. This trend started with the consumerisation of corporate devices, and the gradual introduction of BYOD policies. This has paved the way to the “user voice” being heard more than ever. We’re seeing this trend continuing into the backend ...


Canonical
26 April 2013

Responding to orientation

Ubuntu Notes

We have just published a new chapter on our App Design Guides : how to handle orientation. To cater for the different orientations of a range of touch devices, we need to design apps for Ubuntu in a responsive way. Phone orientations The primary orientation for an app on the phone is portrait. Consider using landscape orientation when we ...


Canonical
25 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 delivers OpenStack with high availability, scalable storage and big data deployment capabilities

Ubuntu News

Ubuntu 13.04 offers a complete solution for building highly available, flexible and secure OpenStack production clouds with scale out storage, networking and compute capabilities. ...


Canonical
17 April 2013

Designing in the open

Ubuntu Notes

On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15 minutes talk and to be prepared for a discussion to follow. In preparation for the talk I spoke to a few people ...


Canonical
16 April 2013

Enterprise cloud computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

Cloud and server News

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to develop and deploy new applications, services and infrastructure. Enterprises can choose among cloud providers to meet their needs for performance, features, price and flexibility t ...