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Canonical
23 December 2013

Messaging interaction

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it. Here are some of things that we’ve had to consider when making these interactions user friendly: making sure the transitions fit within our paper metaphor — for ...

Canonical
20 December 2013

Making the world more secure, instantly

Cloud and server Article

Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time and can use all the company’s web resources and applications. The problem comes when employees use easy passwords or share their passwords, either knowingly or unknowingly. The solut ...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Latest from the web team — December 2013

Ubuntu Notes

This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: updating the site based on feedback we received from users — keep those comments coming! Canonical website: getting the site ready for launch, ...

Carla Berkers
19 December 2013

Stakeholder interviews as a research method

Ubuntu User Experience

I’d like to share my experience working on the project that has been my main focus over the past months: the redesign of canonical.com. Research methods As I started talking to people in the design department I quickly discovered we have a lot of information about our site visitors. My colleagues helped me access Google ...

Matthieu James
18 December 2013

The new Ubuntu icons

Ubuntu Featured

During last month’s vUDS we showcased the latest design explorations for the new Ubuntu icon theme. Here is a summary of what we presented. Our objectives This project’s main goal is to create a single modern, high-resolution icon theme for desktop and touch devices that can adapt to various screen densities and reinforces the Ubuntu ...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Ubuntu Desktop: a proven, leading-edge, low-cost OS perfect for education

Desktop Article

Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond with each other and their teaching staff, and do many other things using the Ubuntu desktop. Why do governments, universities, schools and learners choose Ubuntu? ...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing.  Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test environments, big data (Hadoop), and Cloud (OpenStack).  Not only do all these next-generation workloads run on top of Ubuntu but what’s truly amazing is you can deploy and orchestrate them wit ...

Canonical
11 December 2013

Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector

Desktop Article

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions. In India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh the government knows that investing in laptops and making them readily available to students is a powerful way to help their knowledge econ ...

Canonical
10 December 2013

More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Apache Cordova

Phone and tablet Article

Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones. PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework, based on the open source Apache Cordova project. ...

Canonical
9 December 2013

Open source economics | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Phone and tablet Article

Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today community is a new and equally important factor. Conventional wisdom is that open source delivers the best results in all cases, so why isn’t true openness playing a bigger role in the ...

Canonical
9 December 2013

Pioneering community develops app for Evernote

Phone and tablet News

Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri ...

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