Design

Academia vs Industry

by Canonical on 14 September 2012

I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and I am finally getting up to speed with the working...

12.10 wallpaper selection finalised

by Canonical on 5 September 2012

Here they are! Our lovely wallpapers for the 12.10 release of Ubuntu. Fine plumage I think you’ll agree! As you’ll have seen elsewhere on the web these landed...

12.10 shortlist so far

by Canonical on 28 August 2012

12.10 shortlist, a gallery on Flickr. Today the group closed on submissions for the 12.10 wallpaper selection. The team of us involved are still working to...

Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript

by Anthony Dillon on 24 August 2012

I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This...

Calum and Mika’s cakes.

by Canonical on 23 August 2012

We are blogging a lot of cakes, so to economise on space, I’ve paired Mika and I’s latest baking attempts. Last week was my turn to bake a cake. I was...

New focus for wallpaper submissions

by Canonical on 21 August 2012

Quantal is well on the way to being the great release we’ve come to expect from Ubuntu so it’s time to add to that sheen with a set of quality wallpapers from...

Gone to the island

by Canonical on 10 August 2012

The release schedule of Ubuntu is tied to a 6 month cycle, also called cadence. Similarly, a lot of our work and planning falls onto our diaries like country...

Ubuntu Online Tour

by Anthony Dillon on 9 August 2012

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out...

Introducing web apps

by Canonical on 23 July 2012

As you might have heard from the blogosphere, we are going to start to ship our take on web apps. Let me take the opportunity to explain to you some of the...

Cake

by Canonical on 23 July 2012

Design Is a Job

by Inayaili de León Persson on 20 July 2012

In the past few weeks I’ve been trying to catch up with all the reading that I haven’t been doing in the past few months. One of the books in my to-read pile...

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre

by Canonical on 7 May 2012

Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design...