Blog posts tagged
"Design"

624 posts

Canonical
20 January 2011

Free Culture Showcase

Notes Ubuntu

Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom.

Canonical
20 January 2011

Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Research Ubuntu

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Design Ubuntu

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The

Canonical
13 January 2011

Canonical
4 January 2011

Hebrew and Arabic on track

Design Ubuntu

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some technical challenges, we have now finalised the Hebrew Regular and are making good tracks with the Arabic. You may remember the earlier post on the subject of the Hebrew

Canonical
4 January 2011

Canonical
21 December 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web

News Desktop

Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font API any web designer can now pick Ubuntu from the Google Font Directory and bring the beauty and legibility of the Ubuntu fonts to their web properties. Using Ubuntu

Canonical
21 December 2010

Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Notes Ubuntu

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January

Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Canonical
14 December 2010

Surveying contributions

Design Ubuntu

If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36WWXCF It isn’t a quick one, but if you have about 20 minutes to spare then your response would be very much appreciated. I will publish the results on

Canonical
14 December 2010

Canonical
8 December 2010

Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate Idea #25801: Help the user understand when closing a window does not terminate the app. In other words, figure out to signal to the user that an application will

Canonical
8 December 2010

Canonical
7 December 2010

So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?

Design Ubuntu

I conducted 5 qualitative interviews with developers and here are some findings. You have two problems. The first problem is to design the API. The second is to help people learn to use it. Great API design Is consistent, predictable, learnable. You are creating an API that developers will interact with. In the same way

Canonical
7 December 2010

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Participate in research

Research Ubuntu

Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current research project in London on the 3rd and 10th December. If this sounds like you please get in touch.

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Development Ubuntu

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.

Canonical
26 November 2010

Canonical
25 November 2010

Here come the Ninjas

Development Ubuntu

Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!

Canonical
25 November 2010

Canonical
19 November 2010

Paper cuts need you!

Notes Ubuntu

You won’t be surprised to hear that I am on the Papercutters team and, in that capacity, was on the receiving end of an email from Vish who points out a couple of things: 1) Only a handful of members in the Papercutters team are active on the project. 2) For a project to live

Canonical
19 November 2010

Canonical
18 November 2010

The monospace is coming

Design Ubuntu

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on typewriters, and more recently in some specialised printing environments such as Credit Card embossing, or ticketing. Today, monospace fonts are primarily used within a...

Canonical
18 November 2010

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