Design
All the latest news on the design team at Canonical.
Ubuntu
September’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 3 October 2016
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of September: Empty States It’s ok to say what’s ok Sully – 208 Seconds Experience Google...
Phone and tablet
August’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 September 2016
August has been a quiet month, as many of team have taken some time off to enjoy the unusually lovely London summer weather, but we have a few great links to...
Ubuntu
What is the best way to display online status? We tested it
by Rae Shambrook on 17 August 2016
Recently I have been working on the visual design for RCS (which stands for rich communications service) group chat. While working on the “Group Info” screen,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...