Web engineering and design team
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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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Messaging interaction
by Canonical on 23 December 2013
We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it....
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Latest from the web team — December 2013
by Inayaili de León Persson on 19 December 2013
This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on:...
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Stakeholder interviews as a research method
by Carla Berkers on 19 December 2013
I’d like to share my experience working on the project that has been my main focus over the past months: the redesign of canonical.com. Research methods As I...
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The new Ubuntu icons
by Matthieu James on 18 December 2013
During last month’s vUDS we showcased the latest design explorations for the new Ubuntu icon theme. Here is a summary of what we presented. Our objectives...
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App Design Clinic #6
by Canonical on 5 December 2013
We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on!...
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App Design Clinic #5
by Canonical on 3 December 2013
Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design...
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vUDS November: Design Track sum up!
by Canonical on 2 December 2013
On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged...
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Latest from the web team — November 2013
by Inayaili de León Persson on 21 November 2013
Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve...
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Juju ice-cream icon design
by Matthieu James on 19 November 2013
Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in...
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The new Ubuntu Resources
by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 November 2013
Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first...
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November Brown Bag lunch
by Canonical on 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
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Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?
by Canonical on 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...