Design
All the latest news on the design team at Canonical.
Ubuntu
Convergent terminal
by Canonical on 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 so far, invite users of …
Ubuntu
Competition winner – Timer App
by Canonical on 9 August 2016
Back in June we hosted a competition that asked developers to use the AdaptivePageLayout component from the UI toolkit to create an app that converges across devices. We had some very impressive entires that used the …
Ubuntu
Web team hack day
by Anthony Dillon on 8 August 2016
Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily tasks in the office …
Ubuntu
Refreshed scrollbars!
by Andrea Bernabei on 8 August 2016
You may have noticed that the scrollbars available on Ubuntu Touch and the Unity8 environment have recently received a huge overhaul in both visual appearance and user experience. More specifically, we redesigned the Scrollbar component (which …
Ubuntu
App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns
by Canonical on 4 August 2016
Last week we released phase 1 of the new App Design Guides, which included Get started and Building blocks. Now we have just released phase 2: Patterns. This includes handy guidance on gestures, navigation and layout …
Desktop
The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)
by Stephanie on 2 August 2016
The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and developer wishing to build an app or scope on Ubuntu. …
Ubuntu
July’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 August 2016
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of July: 9 tips to help you rock your first (or next) conference presentation Notes from the road The Superbook: Turn your smartphone …
Phone and tablet
Developing for Vanilla v1
by Barry McGee on 29 July 2016
As Inayaili recently blogged, we are now working towards a goal of releasing Version one (v1) of Vanilla for early September. Maturity Vanilla was created just over a year ago and in that time has been …
Ubuntu
New starter Raul (UX designer) – “I want to challenge myself to do the most difficult things”
by Canonical on 26 July 2016
Meet the newest member of the design team, UX designer Raul Alvarez, who will be working on the Ubuntu convergence story. Raul will be bringing new ideas to improve our apps to allow for a seamless …
Ubuntu
See what our interns got up to and what they thought of our apps
by Femma on 22 July 2016
Last week the design team had two interns undertaking their work experience at the London office. Our first student is studying computer science for her GCSEs and has an interest in Python programming and software engineering. …
Ubuntu
Introducing the new Juju store
by Elvi on 19 July 2016
Over the past few months, the Juju team has been working on a whole redesign of the Juju store homepage and we’re very happy to announce that it is now live! Juju is an application and …
Ubuntu
See our designs on Behance and Dribbble
by Canonical on 8 July 2016
You can now follow us on Dribbble and Behance for design inspiration. See things like: the Ubuntu #reinvent digital campaign, Juju embeddable card and Suru app icon designs. Follow us 🙂