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Tom Macfarlane
13 March 2014

MWC 2014 – A strong design coherence in everything we do

Ubuntu Featured

Last month at Mobile World Congress Ubuntu’s presence was stronger than ever. Our third year at MWC and we made some significant design changes to our stand. In such a large exhibition space, strong branding is key. We designed five large banners – made from fabric and stretched across metal frames – that were suspended above the stand. E ...


Canonical
13 March 2014

New Apps header

Ubuntu User Experience

The new apps header features max. 4 slots that can be arranged and combined in order to fulfil user needs in every screen. Header’s values We want to provide our users with the right amount of contextual information for them to know: 1- Where they are at (inside the app, in a particular view). 2- ...


Canonical
10 March 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS wallpaper

Ubuntu Featured

Hey For the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on the new Ubuntu Wallpaper. It is never easy trust me. The most difficult part was to work out the connection between the old wallpapers and the new look and feel – Suru. The wallpaper has become an integral part of the ubuntu brand, the ...


Mark Shuttleworth
8 March 2014

The very best edge of all

Ubuntu Design

The bottom edge is the most natural one to use, and Ubuntu has given it to developers to make the most of. Some design guidance establishes a framework for evaluating your creativity, but it leaves a very wide degree of creative freedom and we’re already seeing a load of superb interactions coming to the fore in core and community apps. H ...


Canonical
6 March 2014

Thanks for all your submissions!

Ubuntu Design

The submissions process for Ubuntu 14.04 is now closed. If you’d like to look at the images head over to the Flickr Group. From here on a group of dedicated and splendid individuals will get together to select the images that are going to go into the next release of Ubuntu. We’ll be hanging out on #1404wallpaper on Freenode and you can c ...


Canonical
6 March 2014

Loving the bottom edge

Ubuntu Featured

The bottom edge is the most pleasurable edge to use. Grab a phone, any phone, and slide your thumb up over the bottom edge, then back. Go on, do it a few times. Feel good? Yeah, our extensive research suggests this feels pretty amazing to pretty much everyone. Hmmm…. Feels good! That’s why we’ve given ...


Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Latest from the web team — February 2014

Ubuntu Notes

Time flies! February is mostly behind us now and hopefully spring won’t take too long to show up in London. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve released a new iteration of the site this week — have a look and let us know your thoughts! MWC 2014: we’ve created a ...


Canonical
27 February 2014

Easy app publishing on Ubuntu

Phone and tablet Article

Developing your app for Ubuntu? Want to understand Ubuntu’s app publishing process? Today we have released a step by step video guide which shows just how easy it is to publish your app on Ubuntu. Jono Bacon, Head of Community at Canonical, walks you through the Ubuntu publishing process for new applications. He shows how to upload your a ...


Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta!

Ubuntu Featured

Today we’ve released a new version of Ubuntu Resources with some new functionality and design improvements, and we’ve now moved from alpha to beta! Feedback We asked visitors to the site to give us their feedback based on their visits on their mobile devices, and we received lots of useful comments since we launched the ...


Canonical
26 February 2014

Announcing the third Ubuntu app showdown contest!

Phone and tablet News

Today we announce the launch of our third Ubuntu App Showdown contest! We are excited to bring you yet another engaging developer competition, where the Ubuntu app developer community brings innovative and interesting new apps for Ubuntu on mobile devices. Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using the new Ubunt ...


Canonical
21 February 2014

Ubuntu looks stunning on phones and tablets at MWC 2014

Phone and tablet Article

The latest development of Ubuntu for phones and tablets is on show at this year’s Mobile World Congress – including the visually stunning “scopes”, a new mobile UI paradigm. Ubuntu has announced partnerships with Meizu, a hot manufacturer of phones in China, and BQ, a specialist European phone manufacturer, to bring the first range of ...