Blog posts tagged
"Design"

624 posts

Canonical
27 August 2010

Boo-yah!!!

Development Ubuntu

105 papercut bugs have been fixed in Maverick already! Read on to find out how you can help us clear even more.

Canonical
27 August 2010

Canonical
26 August 2010

Second update to the Ubuntu Light themes

Design Ubuntu

Hi guys I’m Andrea Cimitan! 😉 Sorry for the delay but here we are, with an abundance of updates for Ambiance and its complementary bright theme, Radiance! It has been a great couple of weeks for me, where I continued working jointly with our visionary design lead Otto Greenslade, who I would like to thank

Canonical
26 August 2010

Canonical
20 August 2010

This week in design – 20 August 2010

Design Ubuntu

In honour of a comment made about design this week, we are rocking out as the heading to this weeks update on work in the design team. One area we’re rocking out HARD is the papercuts. Vish now informs me that we’ve fixed over 80 which will hopefully put us on track to get 100

Canonical
20 August 2010

Canonical
20 August 2010

Meet Shinya Kimura

Design Ubuntu

I was reminded of this video by a piece of music that came on shuffle as I was working. Splendid short film, beautiful colour, and that noise!

Canonical
20 August 2010

Canonical
20 August 2010

A true italic

Design Ubuntu

In this latest post from Dalton Maag Lukas Paltram updates us on the development thinking that went into the italics in the new Ubuntu font family.

Canonical
20 August 2010

Mark Shuttleworth
20 August 2010

10.10.10.10.10…..

Design Ubuntu

Here’s a way to show off your movie-making creative skills AND promote whatever you think the coolest things in 10.10 are: make a Maverick Movie!

Mark Shuttleworth
20 August 2010

Canonical
16 August 2010

Get your photos on millions of computers!

Design Ubuntu

It’s that time again! We’ve been accepting submissions on the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group for a while now but with the deadline fast approaching for Beta we need to get together a shortlist and finalise the photo wallpapers that will be in the next Ubuntu release in October.

Canonical
16 August 2010

Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2010

Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

Design Ubuntu

Gestures are a powerful interaction language that will be as relevant for desktops as it is on phones and tablets. Ubuntu 10.10 has a gesture framework that allows for gesture chaining or composition into rich “gesture sentences”. You can use multi-touch gestures for window management with Unity in 10.10 Netbook Edition...

Mark Shuttleworth
16 August 2010

Canonical
16 August 2010

Gone for a walk?!

Design Ubuntu

My new friend has gone missing! Have you seen Rick?

Canonical
16 August 2010

Canonical
13 August 2010

This week in design – 13 August 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s Friday the 13th! Thankfully it’s past midday so safe to write this post. We’ve had a busy week although it’s been a bit quiet as people have been away on holidays or working remotely. First up this week? We can’t go anywhere without talking about the theme. Updates to the Ubuntu desktop theme Last

Canonical
13 August 2010

Canonical
13 August 2010

Finding the Ubuntu font design

Design Ubuntu

In our second post from Dalton Maag we get an insight into the origin of our very own Ubuntu font.

Canonical
13 August 2010

Canonical
13 August 2010

My new friend

Design Ubuntu

Very kindly donated to me by Ale on the design team here at Canonical. Maverick, Rick for short, sits proudly on my desk. He joins the lovely plush Lynx from the last release. Incidentally you can buy your own Lynx as well and help save the Lynx from extinction with a donation to the SOS

Canonical
13 August 2010

Canonical
11 August 2010

How are your users feeling? Example from Rhythmbox

Article Ubuntu

When conducting and writing up user research findings, I make a point of defining the experience goals alongside participant’s actual real life goals.  This is because, as users interact with a system, they are made to feel a certain way – just as people can, software can bring the best or the worst out of

Canonical
11 August 2010

Canonical
10 August 2010

The first milestone

Design Ubuntu

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and what’s coming.

Canonical
10 August 2010

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