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Reasons to celebrate 29th April 2010

by Canonical on 29 April 2010

One of the first things I did when I joined Canonical just over a year ago was conduct some user research. The idea was to identify some broad areas that...

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Ubuntu visual identity

by Canonical on 28 April 2010

Drum roll please….After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is online...

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When it comes to social networking what are you? Door, Mirror, Room?

by Canonical on 27 April 2010

Everyone belongs to one, two or more social networking sites. At Canonical, we wondered “What does social networking mean to people?” I set off to find out. ...

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A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

by Mark Shuttleworth on 27 April 2010

The Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will use a single consolidated menu, displayed in the panel, rather than individual menus in each application window.

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Refining the battery status menu

by Matthew Paul Thomas on 23 April 2010

As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the...

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Magical Mystery Cafe

by Canonical on 23 April 2010

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re...

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New strategic plan!

by Canonical on 23 April 2010

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them...

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Curious displays

by Canonical on 23 April 2010

Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment.

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Future of eBooks?

by Canonical on 22 April 2010

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application.

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It’s good to talk

by Canonical on 22 April 2010

Only a few posts in and our design blog is teeming with lively debate! Don’t forget that you can comment on these posts but if you feel an idea warrants a...

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CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

by Canonical on 22 April 2010

Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have...

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Farewell to the notification area

by Matthew Paul Thomas on 21 April 2010

Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior....