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Multiculturalism and globalisation in user experience
By Claudio Gomboli, 19 April 2021
The worldwide Internet audience is growing exponentially less English speaking and less Western centred. In order to engage with this multicultural audience,...
Designing product page templates for ubuntu.com
By Francesca Granato, 10 October 2017
During our user testing sessions on ubuntu.com, we often receive feedback from users about content on the site (“I can’t find this”, “I’d like more of that”...
Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process
By Robin Winslow, 8 September 2017
I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists...
Simplifying local development: The ./run executable
By Robin Winslow, 5 July 2017
Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby,...
Designing in the open
By Anthony Dillon, 25 April 2017
Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories,...
Convergent terminal
By Canonical, 15 August 2016
We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work...
Autopilot: benefits of early release
By Carla Berkers, 24 May 2016
OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the
Helsinki SDK sprint
By Femma, 10 December 2015
We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The...
Jujucharms.com homepage redesign
By Elvi, 16 November 2015
After many hours of research, testing and never-ending questions about structure, design, aesthetics and function, we’re very happy to announce that...
Community interview – Dan Chapman
By James Mulholland, 14 October 2015
We sat down with Dekko star Dan Chapman to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu and his excitement for the release of the Pocket Desktop. Dan...
Why the first impression matters
By Canonical, 28 September 2015
We believe that the first impression matters, especially when it comes to introducing a new product for the first time. Our aim is to delight the user from...