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Yakkety Yak

by Tom Macfarlane on 7 November 2016

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development...

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

by Grazina Borosko on 20 October 2016

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases...

Ubuntu Core

by Tom Macfarlane on 12 October 2016

Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all...

A week in Vancouver with the Landscape team

by Inayaili de León Persson on 12 October 2016

Earlier this month Peter and I headed to Vancouver to participate in a week-long Landscape sprint. The main goals of the sprint were to review the work that...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...