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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Canonical
23 July 2012

Cake

Ubuntu Notes

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.   ...

Inayaili de León Persson
20 July 2012

Design Is a Job

Ubuntu Design

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 ...

Canonical
7 May 2012

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

Ubuntu Research

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
19 April 2012

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

Ubuntu Design

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

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Ubuntu Research

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 ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
13 April 2012

System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu Design

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. ...

Mark Shuttleworth
27 March 2012

Holistic UI is smarter UX

Ubuntu Design

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. ...

Canonical
23 March 2012

The Pangolin wallpaper selection takes flight

Ubuntu Article

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
16 March 2012

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

Ubuntu Design

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 of window switching ...

Canonical
6 March 2012

Choosing, moving, wallpapers

Ubuntu Design

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
5 March 2012

Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012

Ubuntu Article

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 booth attracted a ...

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