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Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team.

The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the boundaries of the web.

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Mark Shuttleworth
3 May 2010

Window indicators

Design Ubuntu

“Windicators” are window indicators, on the right of the title bar, which follow the same pattern as the Ayatana indicators that Ubuntu uses on in the panel.

Mark Shuttleworth
3 May 2010

Canonical
29 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010

Design Ubuntu

One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that needed to be addressed and so I devised sessions that included topics like dealing with music and photos, browsing the Internet, chatting with friends, etc.

Canonical
29 April 2010

Canonical
28 April 2010

Ubuntu visual identity

Design Ubuntu

Drum roll please….After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is online and available to all!.If you’ve never worked through such a process before the amount of work

Canonical
28 April 2010

Canonical
27 April 2010

When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?

Notes Ubuntu

Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out.  I went to people’s homes, sat with them at their computers, looked at the social networking sites they belong to, at their friends, and observed them using the

Canonical
27 April 2010

Mark Shuttleworth
27 April 2010

A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will use a single consolidated menu, displayed in the panel, rather than individual menus in each application window.

Mark Shuttleworth
27 April 2010

Matthew Paul Thomas
23 April 2010

Refining the battery status menu

Notes Ubuntu

As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the design and any improvements we can make.

Matthew Paul Thomas
23 April 2010

Canonical
23 April 2010

Magical Mystery Cafe

Design Ubuntu

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re right. Cabel Sasser is co-founder of a software company I’ve long admired and found a very interesting place to get a drink while

Canonical
23 April 2010

Canonical
23 April 2010

New strategic plan!

Design Ubuntu

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them Lean and agile and the chap quoted here is Herb Kelleher of Southwest airlines fame. Southwest are renowned for the way that the run their company. Highly responsive to

Canonical
23 April 2010

Canonical
23 April 2010

Curious displays

Design Ubuntu

Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment.

Canonical
23 April 2010

Canonical
22 April 2010

Future of eBooks?

Design Ubuntu

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.

Canonical
22 April 2010

Canonical
22 April 2010

It’s good to talk

Design Ubuntu

Only a few posts in and our design blog is teeming with lively debate! Don’t forget that you can comment on these posts but if you feel an idea warrants a more open or broad conversation bring them over to the Ayatana mailing list. You can get involved in Ayatana by heading over to its

Canonical
22 April 2010

Canonical
22 April 2010

CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

Research Ubuntu

Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novices understand and correct such errors. This paper introduces HelpMeOut, a social recommender system that aids the debugging of error...

Canonical
22 April 2010

Matthew Paul Thomas
21 April 2010

Farewell to the notification area

Notes Ubuntu

Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior. Many programs that previously used the notification area should use other notification mechanisms instead. Some notification area items will be replaced by various...

Matthew Paul Thomas
21 April 2010

Canonical
21 April 2010

Ubuntu wallpapers

Design Ubuntu

In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from the Soft

Canonical
21 April 2010

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