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Canonical
9 September 2010

Charactersets

Design Ubuntu

In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu typeface. Where do you begin, where do you stop? In the case of the Ubuntu font project, the second part of the question is easily answered – when all the glyphs

Canonical
9 September 2010

Inayaili de León Persson
9 September 2010

Allow me to introduce myself…

Notes Ubuntu

My name’s Inayaili (most people call me either Yaili or Lily though) and I’m the new web designer in the Canonical’s design team — just started last Tuesday. It was a busy and exciting week: lots of meetings to become familiar with the company and with everyone working here in the Millbank headquarters, and, of

Inayaili de León Persson
9 September 2010

Canonical
9 September 2010

Meerkats like the sun?!

Design Ubuntu

Today I got another e-mail from a statue. There’s a perfectly normal sentence … This time from a beach where Rick says he’s having an amazing time relaxing after his conference! So what have we learned so far, apart from the fact that an unattended Meerkat is likely to wander off if left for too

Canonical
9 September 2010

Canonical
8 September 2010

Exciting things in the post!

Design Ubuntu

A couple of months back Marcus and I got a call from a magazine in Japan who wanted to produce stickers for Ubuntu. We’d _just_ signed off the new logo and word mark and so we collaborated back and forth and finally yesterday the finished article arrived! And here are the lovely stickers! They look

Canonical
8 September 2010

Canonical
6 September 2010

We are hiring: Design Engineer

Article Ubuntu

We are looking for a Design Engineer with superb technical and communication skills to join the Design Team. Is that you?

Canonical
6 September 2010

Canonical
3 September 2010

This week in design – 3 September 2010

Design Ubuntu

This week was a short one in the UK but it seems as though we set out to fill it with as much as we possibly could! For a start we hit beta this week. If you’ve not upgraded to Maverick, you really should. We all have and are enjoying the updated Radiance and Ambiance

Canonical
3 September 2010

Canonical
3 September 2010

In Brazil?!

Design Ubuntu

Came in this morning to a mail from Rick, my Meerkat who went for a walk a little while ago. Apparently he was giving a keynote at Linuxcon!! More as I get it

Canonical
3 September 2010

Canonical
3 September 2010

Just an average day in 2014

Design Ubuntu

While I’m not convinced that Sweden will actually win the world cup there’s lots to like about this “five minutes into the future” look at how we might share content and interact with devices in a few years time. I’m setting a reminder in my calendar. I’ll catch you in 5 years, see if we

Canonical
3 September 2010

Alejandra Obregon
2 September 2010

Why do you use Ubuntu?

User Experience Ubuntu

We’ve been looking at making developments to the Ubuntu website that explore and highlight the reasons for using Ubuntu above and beyond the features of the products. One idea we had was to invite community members and Ubuntu users to tweet or post about why they use Ubuntu and display this on the site. The community’s...

Alejandra Obregon
2 September 2010

Canonical
2 September 2010

Happy Beta day everyone!

Notes Ubuntu

Happy Beta Release day one and all. If you’ve not yet upgraded surely now’s the time

Canonical
2 September 2010

Canonical
1 September 2010

Ubuntu default wallpaper

Design Ubuntu

So, the default wallpaper… My initial vision: Seeing so many screenshots of the Ubuntu desktop during the second to last release all sporting identical backdrops, made me wonder: wouldn’t it be amazing if all our users received (or evolved) subtly different wallpapers – not radically enough to dilute the intent but just...

Canonical
1 September 2010

Canonical
29 August 2010

Raw Photo Treatment Photos and More

Design Ubuntu

I just uploaded a few examples of the “raw” photos taken recently at the Canonical London office. Hopefully some of these photos, when properly edited, will help define the future Canonical/Ubuntu photo treatment. Thanks to all those who agre

Canonical
29 August 2010

Canonical
27 August 2010

On being famous…

Design Ubuntu

I called the registrar’s office the other day to ask a question. The person on the phone was very helpful and quickly answered my question. In order to do so, he asked me for my name, which I told him. He started making odd “hrm” noises and repeating m

Canonical
27 August 2010

Canonical
27 August 2010

This week in design – 27 August 2010

Design Ubuntu

Frozen in time (c) Alyssa Nicole via Flickr This week we caught a chill in the form of our UI Freeze. That meant that from here on we should only be fixing bugs in the next release of Ubuntu. A highlight of the design contributions this week was the wonderful user contributed wallpapers! 17 images

Canonical
27 August 2010

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