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.
Ubuntu
Shorts, the RSS reader app
by Canonical on 16 May 2013
As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience...
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System Settings for Ubuntu Phone
by Matthew Paul Thomas on 16 May 2013
The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the...
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Ubuntu.com update
by Alejandra Obregon on 13 May 2013
I’d like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website....
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Responding to orientation
by Canonical on 26 April 2013
We have just published a new chapter on our App Design Guides : how to handle orientation. To cater for the different orientations of a range of touch...
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Designing in the open
by Canonical on 17 April 2013
On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15...
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Spring cleaning ubuntu.com
by Inayaili de León Persson on 16 April 2013
Yesterday we’ve launched an updated version of ubuntu.com, which we hope will improve navigation throughout the site and provide visitors with a better...
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Core utility apps visual exploration
by Canonical on 12 April 2013
Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock,...
Phone and tablet
The design vision for Ubuntu
by Canonical on 11 April 2013
An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical.
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Core utility apps process update
by Canonical on 5 April 2013
Well done to everyone working on the core utility apps – we’ve made amazing progress so let’s celebrate that! We all want to see what’s coming up so here’s a...
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App patterns applied: weather key journeys
by Canonical on 26 March 2013
These last few weeks we have looked at the concepts behind our ritual apps, and explored key journeys for each. Now it is the turn of the weather app! Sitting...
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Good Ubuntu books?
by Inayaili de León Persson on 25 March 2013
A few weeks ago we received a copy of the “No Starch Press” book “Ubuntu Made Easy”, by Rickford Grant with Phil Bull. The book’s main goal – which we fully...