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Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)

Featured Ubuntu

Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not be the perfect standard, but it will bring with it many long-awaited speed improvements to internet communication: Sending of many different resources in the first response Multiplexing...

Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

Canonical
6 March 2015

Ubuntu Music App behind the scenes

User Experience Ubuntu

Ubuntu community devs Andrew Hayzen and Victor Thompson chat with lead designer Jouni Helminen. Andrew and Victor have been working in open source projects for a couple of years and have done a great job on the Music application that is now rolling out on phone, tablet and desktop. In this chat they are sharing

Canonical
6 March 2015

Robin Winslow
28 January 2015

Auto-syncing revision history from Github to Launchpad

Featured Ubuntu

In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning we work in both Bazaar and Git. The need to synchronise Github to Launchpad Some of our Github projects need to be also stored in Launchpad, as some of our systems only have access to

Robin Winslow
28 January 2015

Robin Winslow
27 January 2015

Converting projects between Git and Bazaar

Featured Ubuntu

Here in the design team we use both Bazaar and Git to keep track our projects’ hostory. We quite often end up coverting our projects from Bazaar to Git or vice-versa. Here are some tips on how to do that. To convert revision history between Git and Bazaar, we will use their respective fast–import features.

Robin Winslow
27 January 2015

Canonical
13 November 2014

Community interview: Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen

Featured Ubuntu

Victor and Andrew are two inspiring Community developers that have devoted their spare time to contribute to the Ubuntu Touch Music App team. I sat down with them during the Washington Device Sprint in October where they told us how they drew inspiration from the Design Team, and what drives them to contribute to Ubuntu.

Canonical
13 November 2014

Canonical
4 November 2014

Community interview: Riccardo Padovani and Filippo Scognamiglio

Design Ubuntu

We sat down with some of Ubuntu’s unsung Community heroes at the recent Devices Sprint in Washington D.C. Riccardo and Filippo are two young and passionate developers who have adapted their own software to benefit the whole of the Ubuntu Community. We spoke about how and why they contribute to Ubuntu, and what motivates...

Canonical
4 November 2014

Canonical
31 October 2014

Washington Devices Sprint

Featured Ubuntu

Introducing myself as the new and only content designer in the Design Team, I dived head first into the world of developers, designers and Ubuntu Community members to better understand how open source works, and the passion behind making Ubuntu great. This post features highlights from the sprint and an interview with...

Canonical
31 October 2014

Luca Paulina
13 October 2014

Designing machine view

User Experience Ubuntu

A few weeks ago we launched ‘Machine view’ for Juju, a feature designed to allow users to easily visualise and manage the machines running in their cloud environments. In this post I want to share with you some of the challenges we faced and the solutions we designed in the process of creating it. A

Luca Paulina
13 October 2014

Canonical
11 September 2014

Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

Notes Ubuntu

Brighton is not just a lovely seaside town, mostly known for being overcrowded in Summer by Londoners in search for a bit of escapism, but also the home of a thriving community of designers, makers and entrepreneurs. Some of these people run dConstruct, a gathering where creative minds of all sorts converge every year to

Canonical
11 September 2014

Luca Paulina
2 September 2014

Come and meet us at dConstruct

Featured Ubuntu

Ubuntu is sponsoring the dConstruct “Living with the network” event on the 5th of September at the Brighton Dome. Stop by for a chat with the team, grab some goodies and enter our competition for a chance to win an Ubuntu Phone.

Luca Paulina
2 September 2014

Robin Winslow
28 August 2014

Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages

Featured Ubuntu

On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the first release day in a long time that the site didn’t crash under the load at some point during the day (huge credit to the infrastructure

Robin Winslow
28 August 2014

Canonical
8 August 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!

Design Ubuntu

Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle. As many of you will already know, each release we include photos and illustrations produced by community members. We ask that you submit your

Canonical
8 August 2014

Canonical
25 July 2014

Bringing fluid motion to browsing

User Experience Ubuntu

In the previous Blog Post, we looked at how we use the Recency principle to redesign the experience around bookmarks, tabs and history. In this blog post, we look at how the new Ubuntu Browser makes the UI fade to the background in favour of the content. The design focuses on physical impulse familiarity –

Canonical
25 July 2014

Tom Macfarlane
4 July 2014

Mobile Asia Expo 2014

Featured Ubuntu

Following the success of our new stand design at MWC earlier this year, we applied the same design principles to the Ubuntu stand at last month’s Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai. With increased floor space, compared to last year, and a new stand location that was approachable from three key directions, we were faced with a...

Tom Macfarlane
4 July 2014

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