Web engineering and design team
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 bounderies of the web.
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A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition
by Mark Shuttleworth on 27 April 2010
The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will use a single consolidated menu, displayed in the panel, rather than individual menus in each application window.
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Refining the battery status menu
by Matthew Paul Thomas on 23 April 2010
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...
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Magical Mystery Cafe
by Canonical on 23 April 2010
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...
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New strategic plan!
by Canonical on 23 April 2010
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...
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Curious displays
by Canonical on 23 April 2010
Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment.
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It’s good to talk
by Canonical on 22 April 2010
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...
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CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
by Canonical on 22 April 2010
Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have...
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Farewell to the notification area
by Matthew Paul Thomas on 21 April 2010
Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior....
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Ubuntu wallpapers
by Canonical on 21 April 2010
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...
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What makes a good design critic?
by Canonical on 21 April 2010
While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a...