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Tom Macfarlane
13 March 2014

MWC 2014 – A strong design coherence in everything we do

Featured Ubuntu

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...

Tom Macfarlane
13 March 2014

Canonical
13 March 2014

New Apps header

User Experience Ubuntu

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
13 March 2014

Canonical
10 March 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS wallpaper

Featured Ubuntu

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

Canonical
10 March 2014

Mark Shuttleworth
8 March 2014

The very best edge of all

Design Ubuntu

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...

Mark Shuttleworth
8 March 2014

Canonical
6 March 2014

Thanks for all your submissions!

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
6 March 2014

Loving the bottom edge

Featured Ubuntu

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

Canonical
6 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Latest from the web team — February 2014

Notes Ubuntu

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

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta!

Featured Ubuntu

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

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Canonical
12 February 2014

App Design Clinic #8

User Experience Ubuntu

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information, see http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/UbuntuUserInterfaceToolkit.resolution-independence/) Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu A sneak preview of the...

Canonical
12 February 2014

Canonical
10 February 2014

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

Notes Ubuntu

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client Platform Sprint. This design sprint was a mid cycle checkpoint and the target was to get some important 14.04 designs, including Dash and Right edge swipe, reviewed

Canonical
10 February 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Latest from the web team — January 2014

Notes Ubuntu

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...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Canonical
29 January 2014

App Design Clinic #7

Design Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
29 January 2014

Canonical
13 January 2014

Sheets transition

Featured Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
13 January 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

Featured Ubuntu

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

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

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