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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Canonical
10 February 2014

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

Ubuntu Notes

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client Platform Sprint. This design sprint was a mid cycle checkpoint and the target was to get some important 14.04 designs, including Dash and Right edge swipe, reviewed ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Latest from the web team — January 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve been working on designs for a new homepage and topic landing pages for the upcoming beta release Canonical website: the new canonical.com is now live! Videos: ...

Canonical
29 January 2014

App Design Clinic #7

Ubuntu Design

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and Capitals (a game about capital cities). For this session we covered questions such as – First use prompting and introductions – Margins and alignment – App structure, linking from one ...

Canonical
13 January 2014

Sheets transition

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone. This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress, ...

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate that, in the year that Canonical commemorates its 10th anniversary, our website got some love, so that’s exactly what we set out to do. The homepage ...

Canonical
6 January 2014

New year links

Ubuntu Notes

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential people of 2013.   And there’s a report from JWT pointing at some nice trends, manifestations and insights for 2014 (thank you, Daniel, for the link). ...

Canonical
23 December 2013

Messaging interaction

Ubuntu Featured

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. Here are some of things that we’ve had to consider when making these interactions user friendly: making sure the transitions fit within our paper metaphor — for ...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Latest from the web team — December 2013

Ubuntu Notes

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: Ubuntu Resources: updating the site based on feedback we received from users — keep those comments coming! Canonical website: getting the site ready for launch, ...

Carla Berkers
19 December 2013

Stakeholder interviews as a research method

Ubuntu User Experience

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 started talking to people in the design department I quickly discovered we have a lot of information about our site visitors. My colleagues helped me access Google ...

Matthieu James
18 December 2013

The new Ubuntu icons

Ubuntu Featured

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 This project’s main goal is to create a single modern, high-resolution icon theme for desktop and touch devices that can adapt to various screen densities and reinforces the Ubuntu ...

Canonical
5 December 2013

App Design Clinic #6

Ubuntu Notes

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! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions from our Canonical ...

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