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Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Grazina Borosko
24 May 2016

Edge education

Ubuntu Article

Last year we were working on OOBE redesign with the aim to improve first user experience with Ubuntu phone. Now the Design Team is working on the second part of this project which we call Edge Education. The purpose of Edge Education is to aid discoverability and to educate users into using them naturally. For ...


Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

Cloud and server User Experience

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the ...


Rae Shambrook
20 May 2016

Colour palette updates

Ubuntu Featured

Over the past few months, we’ve given you a peek into our evolving Suru design language with our wallpaper, convergence and Clock App blog posts. Suru is based on Japanese aesthetics: minimalism, lightness and fluidity. This is why you will see the platform moving to a cleaner and more modern look. Naturally, part of this ...


Canonical
11 May 2016

App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

Ubuntu Featured

In the coming months we will be rolling out the new app design guidelines, which will give you the latest toolkit best practices and patterns so you can make your own convergent app for Ubuntu. Why do we need design guidelines? The guidelines are a big part of communicating design practices and philosophy to the ...


Magdalena Mirowicz
6 May 2016

How we introduced Scrum to the Web Team

Ubuntu Notes

At the beginning of the year our team – who look after the core websites in the Ubuntu ecosystem – decided to adjust our project delivery process and go full-on Scrum. This is hardly shocking news these days. Actually, you can find way more people writing about how they decided to ditch Scrum and what ...


April’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: Framer – Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations Cinematic Continuity in User Interface Design The Design Issue 2016 – Bloomberg Businessweek Improving your UX and UI with phantom guides Still thinking you don’t need HTTPS? Your kids mig ...


Grazina Borosko
28 April 2016

Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04

Ubuntu Featured

April marks the release of Xerus 16.4 and with it we bring a new design of our iconic wallpaper. This post will take you through our design process and how we have integrated our Suru visual language. Evolution The foundation of our recent designs are based on our Suru visual language, which encompasses our core ...


Jamie Young
26 April 2016

Ubuntu orange update

Ubuntu Design

Recently, you may have seen our new colour palette update in the SDK. One notable change is the new hex code we’ve assigned to Ubuntu Orange for screen use. The new colour is #E95420. We have a post coming soon that will delve deeper into our new palette but for now we just wanted to ...


Redesigning ubuntu.com’s navigation

Ubuntu Featured

Last month, the web team had an offsite (outside of the office) week sprint in Holborn, central London. We don’t all work on exactly the same projects in our day-to-day, so it’s nice to have this type of sprint, where everyone can work together and show each other what we’ve been working on over the ...


March’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: LEGO Serious Play Micro Lego Serious Play: How small can a useful tool for thinking be? The world’s 15 most complicated subway maps Railway maps Your Job Ad: The Start of a Great Hiring Experience Google Resizer Artist Creates Astonishing Ubuntu ...


February’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the shortest month of the year: Digital Design Education is Broken My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours Persona Never Ask What They Want—3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews Celebrating Cities: A New Look and Feel for Uber Pure CSS – Alarm ...