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"Design"

Tom Macfarlane
13 March 2014

MWC 2014 – A strong design coherence in everything we do

Ubuntu Featured

Last month at Mobile World Congress Ubuntu’s presence was stronger than ever. Our third year at MWC and we made some significant design changes to our stand. In such a large exhibition space, strong branding is key. We designed five large banners – made from fabric and stretched across metal frames – that were suspended above the stand. E ...

Canonical
13 March 2014

New Apps header

Ubuntu User Experience

The new apps header features max. 4 slots that can be arranged and combined in order to fulfil user needs in every screen. Header’s values We want to provide our users with the right amount of contextual information for them to know: 1- Where they are at (inside the app, in a particular view). 2- ...

Canonical
10 March 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS wallpaper

Ubuntu Featured

Hey For the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on the new Ubuntu Wallpaper. It is never easy trust me. The most difficult part was to work out the connection between the old wallpapers and the new look and feel – Suru. The wallpaper has become an integral part of the ubuntu brand, the ...

Mark Shuttleworth
8 March 2014

The very best edge of all

Ubuntu Design

The bottom edge is the most natural one to use, and Ubuntu has given it to developers to make the most of. Some design guidance establishes a framework for evaluating your creativity, but it leaves a very wide degree of creative freedom and we’re already seeing a load of superb interactions coming to the fore in core and community apps. H ...

Canonical
6 March 2014

Thanks for all your submissions!

Ubuntu Design

The submissions process for Ubuntu 14.04 is now closed. If you’d like to look at the images head over to the Flickr Group. From here on a group of dedicated and splendid individuals will get together to select the images that are going to go into the next release of Ubuntu. We’ll be hanging out on #1404wallpaper on Freenode and you can c ...

Canonical
6 March 2014

Loving the bottom edge

Ubuntu Featured

The bottom edge is the most pleasurable edge to use. Grab a phone, any phone, and slide your thumb up over the bottom edge, then back. Go on, do it a few times. Feel good? Yeah, our extensive research suggests this feels pretty amazing to pretty much everyone. Hmmm…. Feels good! That’s why we’ve given ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Latest from the web team — February 2014

Ubuntu Notes

Time flies! February is mostly behind us now and hopefully spring won’t take too long to show up in London. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve released a new iteration of the site this week — have a look and let us know your thoughts! MWC 2014: we’ve created a ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta!

Ubuntu Featured

Today we’ve released a new version of Ubuntu Resources with some new functionality and design improvements, and we’ve now moved from alpha to beta! Feedback We asked visitors to the site to give us their feedback based on their visits on their mobile devices, and we received lots of useful comments since we launched the ...

Canonical
12 February 2014

App Design Clinic #8

Ubuntu User Experience

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information, see http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/UbuntuUserInterfaceToolkit.resolution-independence/) Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu A sneak preview of the updated widgets co ...

Canonical
10 February 2014

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

Ubuntu Notes

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client Platform Sprint. This design sprint was a mid cycle checkpoint and the target was to get some important 14.04 designs, including Dash and Right edge swipe, reviewed ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Latest from the web team — January 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve been working on designs for a new homepage and topic landing pages for the upcoming beta release Canonical website: the new canonical.com is now live! Videos: ...

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