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187 posts from 2013
Core utility apps visual exploration
By Canonical, 12 April 2013
Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock,...
Ubuntu makes a splash in media
By Canonical, 11 April 2013
The Chinese government has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu as the basis for a new reference architecture for a Chinese OS in order to provide a flexible, open,...
Rapid progress keeps development on target
By Canonical, 11 April 2013
An interview with Richard Collins, product manager for Ubuntu phones.
The design vision for Ubuntu
By Canonical, 11 April 2013
An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical.
Moonshot: a milestone in hyperscale
By Canonical, 9 April 2013
Hyperscale will completely change the way enterprises design, deploy and manage servers
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...
App patterns applied: weather key journeys
By Canonical, 26 March 2013
These last few weeks we have looked at the concepts behind our ritual apps, and explored key journeys for each. Now it is the turn of the weather app! Sitting...
Good Ubuntu books?
By Inayaili de León Persson, 25 March 2013
A few weeks ago we received a copy of the “No Starch Press” book “Ubuntu Made Easy”, by Rickford Grant with Phil Bull. The book’s main goal – which we fully...
Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing
By Canonical, 23 March 2013
Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing, some insights surfaced...
App patterns applied: clock key journeys
By Canonical, 22 March 2013
Moving forward with the design of the core apps, we’ve been working on the interaction details of the clock for a while now, building on these...
Canonical and Chinese standards body announce Ubuntu collaboration
By Canonical, 21 March 2013
CSIP defines a new reference architecture for standard operating systems in China CSIP, Canonical and NUDT from the CCN Open Source Innovation Joint Lab to...
13.04 wallpapers submitted
By Canonical, 19 March 2013
The community team for wallpaper selection got together last week #1304wallpaper on Freenode and between us we’ve determined that we’d like to submit the...