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Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

A fresh-looking Design Blog

Article Ubuntu

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally done it: the Design Blog has a new look! Let me take you through the main aspects we wanted to improve on. Why change? The last blog design was nearly four years old. With its small font sizes and crammed pages, the text was difficult to

Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

Canonical
22 October 2012

The UDS Design Track

Notes Ubuntu

One week to go! We’re looking forward to UDS. For me personally it will be my first and I’m thrilled to check out all the interesting sessions and hear your stories about Ubuntu and design. There will also be a very exciting design track in which we hope to work together on many cool topics,

Canonical
22 October 2012

Canonical
14 September 2012

Academia vs Industry

User Experience Ubuntu

I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and I am finally getting up to speed with the working environment, the people and the atmosphere. So what differences have I noticed between the academic setting and the industrial setting? My biggest fear of moving

Canonical
14 September 2012

Canonical
5 September 2012

12.10 wallpaper selection finalised

Design Ubuntu

Here they are! Our lovely wallpapers for the 12.10 release of Ubuntu. Fine plumage I think you’ll agree! As you’ll have seen elsewhere on the web these landed in the release at the time of the freeze last week. A massive thanks to everyone who contributed, the standard was very high this time around, people

Canonical
5 September 2012

Canonical
28 August 2012

12.10 shortlist so far

Design Ubuntu

12.10 shortlist, a gallery on Flickr. Today the group closed on submissions for the 12.10 wallpaper selection. The team of us involved are still working to add/ remove and refine this collection before the 30th. We’ve got a few more than our 10 target, we’ll review this number tomorrow based on quality and what we

Canonical
28 August 2012

Anthony Dillon
24 August 2012

Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript

Development Ubuntu

I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This post is about what I did and how to get some sample code if you want to use or extend it for yourself. The XML The

Anthony Dillon
24 August 2012

Canonical
23 August 2012

Calum and Mika’s cakes.

Notes Ubuntu

We are blogging a lot of cakes, so to economise on space, I’ve paired Mika and I’s latest baking attempts. Last week was my turn to bake a cake. I was nervous. There’s a lot of pressure, and it is no easy task! So I chose to bake a loaf (but relying on one design

Canonical
23 August 2012

Canonical
21 August 2012

New focus for wallpaper submissions

Design Ubuntu

Quantal is well on the way to being the great release we’ve come to expect from Ubuntu so it’s time to add to that sheen with a set of quality wallpapers from our fantastic community. This cycle we’re going to try to make the process better than before by setting out a clearer vision for

Canonical
21 August 2012

Canonical
10 August 2012

Gone to the island

Notes Ubuntu

The release schedule of Ubuntu is tied to a 6 month cycle, also called cadence. Similarly, a lot of our work and planning falls onto our diaries like country festivals on farmer’s calendar. Ubuntu Developer Summits are obviously the main events. However, if you work on Canonical Design Team, there are plenty of other events

Canonical
10 August 2012

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Ubuntu Online Tour

Development Cloud and server

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out Ubuntu for the first time and seeing if they like it. As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Canonical
23 July 2012

Introducing web apps

Design Ubuntu

As you might have heard from the blogosphere, we are going to start to ship our take on web apps. Let me take the opportunity to explain to you some of the reasoning behind them and some of their characteristics. Why I would split the why question in more parts. Is the Web relevant? Today,

Canonical
23 July 2012

Canonical
23 July 2012

Cake

Notes Ubuntu

Every weekly team meeting someone is tasked with baking a cake. Ivanka baked for this week’s cake day – check out her cheesecake! So you know, this is not going to become a culinary blog, but cake day is a good reason to post! Being a designer is not (always) a piece of cake.  

Canonical
23 July 2012

Inayaili de León Persson
20 July 2012

Design Is a Job

Design Ubuntu

In the past few weeks I’ve been trying to catch up with all the reading that I haven’t been doing in the past few months. One of the books in my to-read pile that I was particularly eager to read was Mike Monteiro’s “Design Is a Job”, published by A Book Apart. I was not

Inayaili de León Persson
20 July 2012

Canonical
7 May 2012

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

Research Ubuntu

Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design problems for a change. Starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Monday 7 May 2012, you can join us for the next Ubuntu Design Theatre at the Ubuntu Developer

Canonical
7 May 2012

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