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Canonical
19 April 2012

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

Design Ubuntu

In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of course, we love highlighting beautiful design when it does finally come along, and in the last few days the beautiful Pebble smartwatch has appeared over

Canonical
19 April 2012

Canonical
19 April 2012

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Research Ubuntu

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the Ubuntu Arabic for the Ubuntu Font Family and from tomorrow you will be able to see that work for yourself. Until

Canonical
19 April 2012

Matthew Paul Thomas
13 April 2012

System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10

Design Ubuntu

For Ubuntu 12.04, we’re planning to merge the user and system menus, make major changes to the messaging menu, introduce a new sync menu, and retire the printing status menu. There are plenty of smaller changes you can help out with, too.

Matthew Paul Thomas
13 April 2012

Mark Shuttleworth
27 March 2012

Holistic UI is smarter UX

Design Ubuntu

It’s only by looking at the whole, that we can design great experiences. And only by building a community of both system and application developers that care about the whole, that we can make those designs real.

Mark Shuttleworth
27 March 2012

Canonical
23 March 2012

The Pangolin wallpaper selection takes flight

Article Ubuntu

For another cycle a selection of images has been put forward for inclusion in Ubuntu. As there have been some questions on other blogs about the process I thought it was worth doing a quick refresher. Each release we ask the community contributors whose images were included in the last release if they’d like to

Canonical
23 March 2012

Canonical
16 March 2012

Task switching in Ubuntu, and a introduction to ‘The Spread’

Design Ubuntu

Introduction to task switching A key part of any operating system user interface is how it enables the user to switch between multiple tasks. In most desktop operating systems tasks are encapsulated into windows, and the most frequently used method of multi-tasking is window switching. Desktop OSs have multiple methods...

Canonical
16 March 2012

Canonical
6 March 2012

Choosing, moving, wallpapers

Design Ubuntu

All the way back in January we kicked off the submissions process for the next released of Ubuntu. We did this using Flickr and since then the group has been inundated with over 2,700 submissions! This is an incredible achievement in a reasonably short time and many of the entries are looking great. Charline, on

Canonical
6 March 2012

Canonical
5 March 2012

Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu and Canonical had a very strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main attraction was our Ubuntu for Android prototype that was published just a week earlier. The beautiful cubic pavilion also housed the Ubuntu TV demo, Ubuntu One, and our established desktop and cloud offerings. The...

Canonical
5 March 2012

Canonical
2 March 2012

About Usability Testing – Recruiting

Article Ubuntu

Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing.  I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our progress towards achieving a great user experience with Ubuntu.  Last testing took place in October 2011.  I am now preparing for testing 12.04 to take place a...

Canonical
2 March 2012

Canonical
2 March 2012

Testing, testing, testing. It prints!

Article Ubuntu

Back in 2008 Nick Ellery noticed that the default printer test page used more ink that it really needed to: Bug #298935 (“test print uses far too much ink”). Millions and millions of these pages get printed every year, so any saving in ink will be amplified. In addition, it still had the pre-2010 Ubuntu

Canonical
2 March 2012

Canonical
20 February 2012

Sound theme results

Design Ubuntu

First of all, thank you all for your feedback in both the blog post and, most importantly, the survey. Over 2000 surveys were completed, which is amazing. We are really quite overwhelmed with the encouraging feedback received at this stage, so I thought it worth sharing some of the highlights.  Quotes It almost spells out

Canonical
20 February 2012

Canonical
16 February 2012

The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Design Ubuntu

How is Unity designed?  How can I contribute to this process?  Why did you make thus and such decision? The Unity Design Team is frequently asked these questions, and this article aims to de-mystify our design process and highlight the different ways in which volunteer contributions can help improve the Ubuntu user...

Canonical
16 February 2012

Canonical
15 February 2012

Sound theme update

Design Ubuntu

Thank you everyone for all your effort, overall it’s an impressive set from such a short deadline! We’ve been busy listening to all your submissions, it’s been a challenge, but the sound samples have been whittled down to a shortlist (of startup sounds only, for now) that we feel meet the pitch brief (or are close

Canonical
15 February 2012

Canonical
7 February 2012

Ubuntu sound theme design

Design Ubuntu

If you’re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme! The brief As Ubuntu expands onto new form factors, with an increasingly definitive visual identity and brand, it is important to ensure that the theme of

Canonical
7 February 2012

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