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Inayaili de León Persson
4 January 2016

December’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Happy 2016! Here are the best links shared by the design team in December: Stance Star Wars socks 24 Ways Sketch Blog: Leaving the Mac App Store 12 Devs Web Development Calendars for 2015 These photos are why I’m trapped in Tokyo forever now Inside Abbey Road Improve the Apple remote with a purple rubber

Inayaili de León Persson
4 January 2016

Femma
10 December 2015

Helsinki SDK sprint

User Experience Ubuntu

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part of Ubuntu and provides an array of components and flexibility needed to create applications across staged and windowed form

Femma
10 December 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2015

November’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team in November: Interview with Darrin Henein Rapid Prototyping with Gulp, Framer.js and Sketch: Part One Visualizing Sketch 3.4 New Features UX Myths Pantone Smoothies Shia LaBeouf “Just Do It” How To Go To Space (with XKCD!) Astropy: A Community Python Library for...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2015

Matthieu James
26 November 2015

An expanded device mono icon set

Featured Ubuntu

We will soon push an update of the Suru icon theme that includes more device icons in order to support the Ubuntu convergence story. Because the existing icon set was focused on mobile, many of the new icons are very specific to the desktop, as we were missing icons such as hard disk, optical drive,

Matthieu James
26 November 2015

Graham Bancroft
23 November 2015

Vanilla: theme wrapping

Development Ubuntu

If you’ve been following our Vanilla framework series of blog posts you’ll be aware of why we needed this new framework and have a little insight into how we’ve set about using it. With this post we’ll be delving a little further into how we include and customise the framework for our Ubuntu family of

Graham Bancroft
23 November 2015

Canonical
20 November 2015

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Featured Ubuntu

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an operating system, it is a whole community in which everybody collaborates with everybody to bring to the life a wonderful human experience. When you download the

Canonical
20 November 2015

Anthony Dillon
19 November 2015

Using Vanilla with Jekyll

Development Ubuntu

We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all worked fine until we hit an issue with Github Pages. They do not supporting install scripts therefore it is not possible in npm install. Highlighted in this

Anthony Dillon
19 November 2015

Elvi
16 November 2015

Jujucharms.com homepage redesign

User Experience Ubuntu

After many hours of research, testing and never-ending questions about structure, design, aesthetics and function, we’re very happy to announce that Jujucharms has a new homepage! All through this site redesign, our main aim has been to make complex content easy to digest and more fun to read. We’ve strived to create a...

Elvi
16 November 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
16 November 2015

October’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team in October: Writing to Think How We Fixed Our Icon Problem Writing Developer Job Postings The Stages of Fear Building and Enterprise CSS Framework Project Apollo Archive HoloLens project X-ray Aurous CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up) Tech For Good Motion UI Accelerated...

Inayaili de León Persson
16 November 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
22 October 2015

Ubuntu 15.10 is here!

Featured Ubuntu

And ubuntu.com has a brand new homepage too! The new homepage gives a better overview and links to all Ubuntu products. We also wanted to give visitors easy access to the latest Ubuntu news, so we’ve included a ‘latest news’ strip right below the big intro hero with links to featured articles on Ubuntu Insights.

Inayaili de León Persson
22 October 2015

James Mulholland
14 October 2015

Community interview – Dan Chapman

User Experience Ubuntu

We sat down with Dekko star Dan Chapman to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu and his excitement for the release of the Pocket Desktop. Dan has been an active member of the Community since 2013, where he has worked closely with our Design Team to create one of our first

James Mulholland
14 October 2015

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Keynotes from my first PyCon – friendly and inspiring

Featured Ubuntu

Last weekend I went to my first Pycon, my second conference in a fortnight. The conference runs from Friday to Monday, with 3 days of talks followed by one day of “sprints”, which is basically a hack day. PyCon has a code of conduct to discourage any form of othering: Happily, PyCon UK is a

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Python learnings from PyCon

Featured Ubuntu

The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract. Here I’m going to talk about the other talks I saw, which were generally more technical or at least had more to do with Python. Summary The talks I saw covered a whole range of

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
1 October 2015

September’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual Emotional Intelligence in Design Earth View from Google Socality Barbie Origamica Hello, My Name is <Error> Design...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 October 2015

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