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App Design Clinic #3
By Canonical, 23 October 2013
Today’s clinic included: A discussion of launcher placement, Brad Well’s Bible app – general design guidance Michael Zanetti’s uAuthenticator app – general...
Wednesday App Clinic – Update
By Canonical, 26 September 2013
Over the last few weeks, we’ve enjoyed running 2 Wednesday App Clinics. Thanks to all those who sent us their apps and questions. It’s been a fantastic...
Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust
By Canonical, 28 June 2013
In my previous blog post, we looked at the key screens for Shorts, the organic grid and the reading view. You can read about the list view behaviour in this...
Latest design guides
By Canonical, 25 June 2013
It’s been a while since our last update to the app design guides so I thought it was about time I shared the latest additions to this growing resource. Screen...
Solving multiple calendar views
By Canonical, 21 June 2013
One of the key challenges with designing calendar applications is the number of ways you can display your time, whether it’s by year, month, week or day....
Motion Graphics Presentation for Ubuntu Mobile
By Canonical, 24 May 2013
This is a presentation of our ‘Paper’ Motion theme for Ubuntu Mobile. The theme is informed by the ‘paper’ graphic style of the mobile OS and we have sought...
Shorts, the RSS reader app
By Canonical, 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...
System Settings for Ubuntu Phone
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 16 May 2013
The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the...
Weather & Clock app visual exploration
By Canonical, 1 May 2013
Thank you for all your positive feedback after our first blog post. We are very excited and are continuing with the designs, here’s a quick update on how...
Responding to orientation
By Canonical, 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...
Designing in the open
By Canonical, 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...
Core utility apps process update
By Canonical, 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...