Blog posts tagged
"Design"

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March’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In Great README A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day Design Better Cards Chat Systems Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover


February’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017: Write Good linter for Atom Land Lines – Chrome Experiments Better Web Typography for a Better Web Fast Good Cheap Data Visualizations by Herwig Scherabon How Flexbox works—explained with big, colorful, animated gifs Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting...


Inayaili de León Persson
1 February 2017

January’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern patter. CLARK FROM INVISION, FOREVER! The Imbalance of Culture Fit a big list of good news from 2016 Calculate the ideal height of your ergonomic desk, chair

Inayaili de León Persson
1 February 2017


Inayaili de León Persson
1 January 2017

December’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

We hope everyone has had a great start to the year and fun holiday season. Here are the best links shared by the design team during the last month of 2016: Creating a Weekly Research Cadence We’ve updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon

Inayaili de León Persson
1 January 2017


Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2016

November’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of November: BARBICAN | Urban Poetry The Future of Web Education A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award Ten things I wish I knew as a UX

Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2016


Tom Macfarlane
7 November 2016

Yakkety Yak

Featured Ubuntu

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development – head detail Final Yak Colourways T-shirt design

Tom Macfarlane
7 November 2016


Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

October’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New York City and online Halloween Costumes for Designers The Worst Portfolio Ever The Sanctity of Your Calendar Using Normal doors to inform your next design

Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016


Joseph Williams
20 October 2016

Working to make Juju more accessible

Notes Ubuntu

In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to

Joseph Williams
20 October 2016


Grazina Borosko
20 October 2016

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

Featured Ubuntu

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases following Xenial Xerus. You can read about our wallpaper visual design process here. Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak (light version)

Grazina Borosko
20 October 2016


Tom Macfarlane
12 October 2016

Ubuntu Core

Featured Ubuntu

Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all Ubuntu Core branding, online and in print.     Guidelines for use Core Use the Core logo when the Ubuntu logo or the word Ubuntu appears within the same field of vision.

Tom Macfarlane
12 October 2016


Inayaili de León Persson
12 October 2016

A week in Vancouver with the Landscape team

Design Ubuntu

Earlier this month Peter and I headed to Vancouver to participate in a week-long Landscape sprint. The main goals of the sprint were to review the work that had been done in the past 6 months, and plan for the following cycle. IRL Landscape is a totally distributed team, so having regular face-to-face time throughout

Inayaili de León Persson
12 October 2016


Inayaili de León Persson
3 October 2016

September’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of September: Empty States It’s ok to say what’s ok Sully – 208 Seconds Experience Google Allo Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem Redesigning Chrome desktop Clarity Conference videos Thank you to Alejandra, Jamie, Joe and me for the

Inayaili de León Persson
3 October 2016


Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2016

August’s reading list

Notes Phone and tablet

August has been a quiet month, as many of team have taken some time off to enjoy the unusually lovely London summer weather, but we have a few great links to share with you that were shared by the design team this month: Developing a Crisis Communication Strategy Accessibility Guidelines An Evening with Cult Sensation

Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2016


Rae Shambrook
17 August 2016

What is the best way to display online status? We tested it

Research Ubuntu

Recently I have been working on the visual design for RCS (which stands for rich communications service) group chat. While working on the “Group Info” screen, we found ourselves wondering what the best way to display an online/offline status. Some of us thought text would be more explicit but others thought  it adds more noise

Rae Shambrook
17 August 2016