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The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the boundaries of the web.
This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and...
We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a...
We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate...
Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential...
We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it....
This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on:...
I’d like to share my experience working on the project that has been my main focus over the past months: the redesign of canonical.com. Research methods As I...
During last month’s vUDS we showcased the latest design explorations for the new Ubuntu icon theme. Here is a summary of what we presented. Our objectives...
We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on!...
Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design...
On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged...
Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve...
Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in...
Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first...
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...