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Canonical
17 April 2013

Designing in the open

Notes Ubuntu

On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15 minutes talk and to be prepared for a discussion to follow. In preparation for the talk I spoke to a few people

Canonical
17 April 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
16 April 2013

Spring cleaning ubuntu.com

Design Ubuntu

Yesterday we’ve launched an updated version of ubuntu.com, which we hope will improve navigation throughout the site and provide visitors with a better understanding of what Ubuntu is. Research is an important part of what we do, and this update isn’t an exception. The improvements we have made in terms of content and...

Inayaili de León Persson
16 April 2013

Canonical
12 April 2013

Core utility apps visual exploration

Featured Ubuntu

Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock, weather and calendar (calculator and an updated notepad soon too I promise!). It is important to note that this is still an early stage in the design process. Our

Canonical
12 April 2013

Canonical
11 April 2013

The design vision for Ubuntu

Article Phone and tablet

An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical.

Canonical
11 April 2013

Canonical
5 April 2013

Core utility apps process update

Notes Ubuntu

Well done to everyone working on the core utility apps – we’ve made amazing progress so let’s celebrate that! We all want to see what’s coming up so here’s a summary of where we have been, where we are now and where we are going in our design process. Right hand side image : our

Canonical
5 April 2013

Canonical
26 March 2013

App patterns applied: weather key journeys

Notes Ubuntu

These last few weeks we have looked at the concepts behind our ritual apps, and explored key journeys for each. Now it is the turn of the weather app! Sitting down with visual design (visual designs coming soon, watch this space!), we fleshed out the original weather concept to explore how it will meet the user

Canonical
26 March 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
25 March 2013

Good Ubuntu books?

Notes Ubuntu

A few weeks ago we received a copy of the “No Starch Press” book “Ubuntu Made Easy”, by Rickford Grant with Phil Bull. The book’s main goal – which we fully approve of! – is to introduce Ubuntu to newcomers by taking readers through the various projects, with step-by-step instructions which demonstrate how to do

Inayaili de León Persson
25 March 2013

Canonical
23 March 2013

Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing

User Experience Ubuntu

Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing, some insights surfaced about user behaviour, which could help to shape a great user experience for our website. We share the three mains ones here. They have been much discussed in the...

Canonical
23 March 2013

Canonical
22 March 2013

App patterns applied: clock key journeys

Article Ubuntu

Moving forward with the design of the core apps, we’ve been working on the interaction details of the clock for a while now, building on these concepts introduced a few weeks ago. As with the calendar and calculator, we have outlined typical tasks a user wants to accomplish. We call them key journeys. We have grouped the key

Canonical
22 March 2013

Canonical
19 March 2013

13.04 wallpapers submitted

Design Ubuntu

The community team for wallpaper selection got together last week #1304wallpaper on Freenode and between us we’ve determined that we’d like to submit the following images as our delightful wallpaper selection for 13.04. Many thanks to everyone who came to discuss options and help with the selection and in particular...

Canonical
19 March 2013

Canonical
13 March 2013

App patterns explained : navigation

Notes Ubuntu

When we design an app, we consider the different types of information we are communicating and their relationships to one another. This helps us establish what content is of equal importance, what we want to be able to do with it, what is a detailed view of something else and so on. We use three

Canonical
13 March 2013

Canonical
12 March 2013

13.04 Shortlist in progress

Design Ubuntu

13.04 Shortlist in progress, a gallery on Flickr. A quick update, the previous contributors and I are putting together the finishing touches to what we hope will be a great selection. You can see our working over on a Google spreadsheet we’ve made. We’ll be packaging and downloading and shrinking and all sorts to get

Canonical
12 March 2013

Canonical
7 March 2013

App patterns applied: calculator key journeys

Article Ubuntu

A few weeks ago we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. We use key screens to communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how

Canonical
7 March 2013

Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied : core utilities as rituals

User Experience Ubuntu

We’ve been making great progress from both design and development on our four core utilities for Ubuntu on phones so, while we are iterating these concepts, we thought this was a good time to share more of the inspiration behind the apps designs. This helps us keep our goals in sight, not only on the

Canonical
27 February 2013

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