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Canonical
6 January 2014

New year links

Notes Ubuntu

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential people of 2013.   And there’s a report from JWT pointing at some nice trends, manifestations and insights for 2014 (thank you, Daniel, for the link).

Canonical
6 January 2014

Canonical
23 December 2013

Messaging interaction

Featured Ubuntu

We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it. Here are some of things that we’ve had to consider when making these interactions user friendly: making sure the transitions fit within our paper metaphor — for

Canonical
23 December 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Latest from the web team — December 2013

Notes Ubuntu

This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: updating the site based on feedback we received from users — keep those comments coming! Canonical website: getting the site ready for launch,

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Carla Berkers
19 December 2013

Stakeholder interviews as a research method

User Experience Ubuntu

I’d like to share my experience working on the project that has been my main focus over the past months: the redesign of canonical.com. Research methods As I started talking to people in the design department I quickly discovered we have a lot of information about our site visitors. My colleagues helped me access Google

Carla Berkers
19 December 2013

Matthieu James
18 December 2013

The new Ubuntu icons

Featured Ubuntu

During last month’s vUDS we showcased the latest design explorations for the new Ubuntu icon theme. Here is a summary of what we presented. Our objectives This project’s main goal is to create a single modern, high-resolution icon theme for desktop and touch devices that can adapt to various screen densities and...

Matthieu James
18 December 2013

Canonical
5 December 2013

App Design Clinic #6

Notes Ubuntu

We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions...

Canonical
5 December 2013

Canonical
3 December 2013

App Design Clinic #5

Notes Ubuntu

Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s

Canonical
3 December 2013

Canonical
2 December 2013

vUDS November: Design Track sum up!

User Experience Ubuntu

On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged from our design blog to convergence designs to Juju GUI cloud to icon designs! If you missed any of our sessions, don’t worry. They are all

Canonical
2 December 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
21 November 2013

Latest from the web team — November 2013

Notes Ubuntu

Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources alpha release: we’ve launched our first mobile-first project, currently in alpha Canonical website: Graham, Anthony and Karl have...

Inayaili de León Persson
21 November 2013

Matthieu James
19 November 2013

Juju ice-cream icon design

Featured Ubuntu

Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong and we’ve created some very ‘tasty’ icons for it. We thought it would be nice to show you how those icons were created, so

Matthieu James
19 November 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

The new Ubuntu Resources

Featured Ubuntu

Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first methodology and we’re very excited to share this with everyone! As you’ll be able to see, we’re not quite done with it yet, but we wanted to share what we’ve created

Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

Canonical
15 November 2013

November Brown Bag lunch

Notes Ubuntu

Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the

Canonical
15 November 2013

Canonical
11 November 2013

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

User Experience Ubuntu

In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and

Canonical
11 November 2013

Canonical
11 November 2013

App Design Clinic #4

Notes Ubuntu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use action icons The presentation deck link will be shared on the blog once it’s been...

Canonical
11 November 2013

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