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Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Latest from the web team — January 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve been working on designs for a new homepage and topic landing pages for the upcoming beta release Canonical website: the new canonical.com is now live! Videos: ...

Canonical
29 January 2014

App Design Clinic #7

Ubuntu Design

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and Capitals (a game about capital cities). For this session we covered questions such as – First use prompting and introductions – Margins and alignment – App structure, linking from one ...

Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

Cloud and server News

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best Cloud Automation Solution – a category new to the awards this year. The Cloud Awards are in their third year and recognise excellence in cloud computing across the globe. Juju ...

Canonical
17 January 2014

Instant eCommerce

Cloud and server Article

Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking at entering the eCommerce space. However at the moment there are three choices: You choose a hosted solution with direct lock-in. You choose an expensive commercial option. You build ...

Canonical
13 January 2014

Sheets transition

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone. This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress, ...

Canonical
10 January 2014

Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment

Desktop Article

UK government security arm CESG has published a report of its assessment on the security of all ‘End User Device’ operating systems. Its assessment compared 11 desktop and mobile operating systems across 12 categories including: VPN, disk encryption, and authentication. These criteria are roughly equivalent to a standard set of enterprise ...

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate that, in the year that Canonical commemorates its 10th anniversary, our website got some love, so that’s exactly what we set out to do. The homepage ...

Mark Baker
9 January 2014

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

Ubuntu Server

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one of the most satisfying results of our work and is the best measure of the if we are doing the right thing or not. What is ...

Mark Baker
8 January 2014

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

Cloud and server Article

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of our biggest goals: cloud interoperability and OS convergence. First and foremost, creating the best freely available software continued to be a primary goal over ...

Canonical
6 January 2014

New year links

Ubuntu Notes

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential people of 2013.   And there’s a report from JWT pointing at some nice trends, manifestations and insights for 2014 (thank you, Daniel, for the link). ...

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 ...

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