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dConstruct 2010
By Inayaili de León Persson, 10 September 2010
Once again Brighton-based Clearleft prepared something special for those who attended this year’s dConstruct conference. Ivanka and myself had the pleasure to...
Allow me to introduce myself…
By Inayaili de León Persson, 9 September 2010
My name’s Inayaili (most people call me either Yaili or Lily though) and I’m the new web designer in the Canonical’s design team — just started last Tuesday....
Happy Beta day everyone!
By Canonical, 2 September 2010
Happy Beta Release day one and all. If you’ve not yet upgraded surely now’s the time
Font Friday
By Canonical, 6 August 2010
It’s Font Friday – read all about it!
Ubuntu Font Beta: now with added Bold
By Canonical, 30 July 2010
I am happy to announce that we have just updated the Ubuntu Font Beta ppa. Enjoy!
This week in design – 23 July 2010
By Canonical, 23 July 2010
Edition 2 of this week in design kicks off with news of Stack Exchange, a bit about the distro sprint in Prague and an amazing achievement by our Design Team...
Native readers: extending the Beta
By Canonical, 22 July 2010
It is time to extend the Ubuntu Font Beta Testing. We need to make sure that the Ubuntu font is being fully exercised beyond the English language and I do not...
Ubuntu font: what the glyph!
By Canonical, 8 July 2010
Having read some of the comments and bugs I thought it might be useful to add some clarification on a couple of terms. What we have released so far is only...
Never judge a book by its cover!
By Canonical, 6 July 2010
Ubuntu Software Center has amazing improvements lined-up for Maverick Meerkat and early alpha adopters are highly excited about the progress. However, what is...
Help wanted: Testing programs that use the notification area
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 30 June 2010
We have a list of dozens of Ubuntu programs that use the notification area. What we need now is a description of how each of them use it.
Open Season : Maverick
By Canonical, 22 June 2010
It’s back and it’s bigger than ever! It’s that time of the year again, time to start hunting down those nasty trivial Papercut bugs. Huh? Papercuts? To...
When users first encounter Ubuntu: six showstoppers
By Canonical, 11 June 2010
We recently conducted usability testing to see how users respond to Ubuntu on their first encounter. Overall, first impressions are good. Typical remarks...