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title: "App Design Clinic #8\n    | Ubuntu"
description: This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets
  and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information,
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  Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu A sneak preview of the updated widgets co […]
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12 February 2014

# App Design Clinic #8

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This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable).

We covered…

* The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information, see http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/UbuntuUserInterfaceToolkit.resolution-independence/)
* Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu
* A sneak preview of the updated widgets coming to Ubuntu Touch

If you missed it, or want to watch it again, here it is:

The next App Design Clinic will on Wednesday 26th February. Please send your questions and screenshots to design@canonical.com by 1pm UTC on Tuesdays to be included in the following Wednesday clinic.

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