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Grazina Borosko
30 June 2016

Design festival OFFF – “Let’s Feed the Future”

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Every year since 2001, creatives from different design disciplines meet and share their ideas and innovations about digital, interaction and print design in the design festival called OFFF. This festival was previously held in different countries, but has now found its home in Barcelona at the Design Museum. For three...

Grazina Borosko
30 June 2016

Paty Davila
30 June 2016

China Launch Sprint – paving the roadmap

Design Ubuntu

Last week I was invited to Beijing to take part in the China Launch Sprint. The focus of the sprint was to identify action items in our product roadmap for the next devices that will ship Ubuntu Touch in the Chinese market later this year. I am a lead UX designer in the product strategy

Paty Davila
30 June 2016

Luca Paulina
28 June 2016

Juju GUI 2.0

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Juju is a cloud orchestration tool which enables users to build models to run applications. You can just as easily use it to deploy a simple WordPress blog or a complex big data platform. Juju is a command line tool but also has a graphical user interface (GUI) where users can choose services from a

Luca Paulina
28 June 2016

Design in the open

Design Ubuntu

As the Juju design team grew it was important to review our working process and to see if we could improve it to create a more agile working environment. The majority of employees at Canonical work distributed around the globe, for instance the Juju UI engineering team has employees from Tasmania to San Francisco. We

Luca Paulina
28 June 2016

Canonical
27 June 2016

New starter Davide (Project Manager) – “A working team is very precious”

Design Ubuntu

Meet the newest member of the Design Team, project manager Davide Casa. He will be working with the Platform Team to keep us all in check and working towards our goals. I sat down with him to discuss his background, what he thinks makes a good project manager and what his first week was like

Canonical
27 June 2016

App Design Clinic – OwnCloud App #9

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The Ubuntu App Design Clinic is back! This month members of the Design Team James Mulholland (UX Designer), Jouni Helminen (Visual Designer) and Andrea Bernabei (UX Engineer) sat down with Dan Wood, contributor to the OwnCloud app. What is OwnCloud? OwnCloud is an open source project, self-hosted file sync and share app...

Canonical
27 June 2016

Andrea Bernabei
17 June 2016

QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

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QtDay is the only Italian event dedicated to Qt. It is held yearly by Develer and brings together company products that are developed using Qt, as well as Qt developers and customers who want the latest developments and solutions in the Qt world. This year the conference was held in Florence, where I was lucky

Andrea Bernabei
17 June 2016

James Mulholland
14 June 2016

The App Design Clinics are back!

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We’re very happy to announce the return of the Ubuntu App Design Clinics. The first session is planned for 4.00PM BST on Friday the 17th of June, with subsequent sessions occurring at 4.00PM BST on Thursdays. We’ll be on camera talking to Dan Wood regarding his work on the OwnCloud App. Feel free to drop

James Mulholland
14 June 2016

Inayaili de León Persson
1 June 2016

May’s reading list

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Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: MyData 2016 Conference Next-level collaboration: the future of content and design Collection of popular UX flows Microsoft’s hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent What Happened to Google Maps? Surprising Changes to Google Maps’s...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 June 2016

Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Edge education

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Last year we were working on OOBE redesign with the aim to improve first user experience with Ubuntu phone. Now the Design Team is working on the second part of this project which we call Edge Education. The purpose of Edge Education is to aid discoverability and to educate users into using them naturally. For

Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

User Experience Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Rae Shambrook
20 May 2016

Colour palette updates

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Over the past few months, we’ve given you a peek into our evolving Suru design language with our wallpaper, convergence and Clock App blog posts. Suru is based on Japanese aesthetics: minimalism, lightness and fluidity. This is why you will see the platform moving to a cleaner and more modern look. Naturally, part of this

Rae Shambrook
20 May 2016

Canonical
11 May 2016

App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

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In the coming months we will be rolling out the new app design guidelines, which will give you the latest toolkit best practices and patterns so you can make your own convergent app for Ubuntu. Why do we need design guidelines? The guidelines are a big part of communicating design practices and philosophy to the

Canonical
11 May 2016

Magdalena Mirowicz
6 May 2016

How we introduced Scrum to the Web Team

Notes Ubuntu

At the beginning of the year our team – who look after the core websites in the Ubuntu ecosystem – decided to adjust our project delivery process and go full-on Scrum. This is hardly shocking news these days. Actually, you can find way more people writing about how they decided to ditch Scrum and what

Magdalena Mirowicz
6 May 2016

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