Web engineering and design team
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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.
Right… so where should we start? First post. Hello, my name is Chee, and I am an industrial designer. In this post I will share some materials, stories and...
Hey After all the work we have done on the Rituals app designs it was time to start exploring other core apps. I thought it would be good to share with you...
Each cycle we get together as a community to select some fine default wallpapers for the new release of Ubuntu. Your pictures and illustrations could be in the 13.10!
Edges are special to us. We use them for finding apps, tools and system services, so using the edges will be second nature to Ubuntu phone users. By using the...
In my previous blog post, we looked at the key screens for Shorts, the organic grid and the reading view. You can read about the list view behaviour in this...
It’s been a while since our last update to the app design guides so I thought it was about time I shared the latest additions to this growing resource. Screen...
One of the key challenges with designing calendar applications is the number of ways you can display your time, whether it’s by year, month, week or day....
This is a presentation of our ‘Paper’ Motion theme for Ubuntu Mobile. The theme is informed by the ‘paper’ graphic style of the mobile OS and we have sought...
As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience...
The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the...
I’d like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website....
Thank you for all your positive feedback after our first blog post. We are very excited and are continuing with the designs, here’s a quick update on how...
We have just published a new chapter on our App Design Guides : how to handle orientation. To cater for the different orientations of a range of touch...
On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15...
Yesterday we’ve launched an updated version of ubuntu.com, which we hope will improve navigation throughout the site and provide visitors with a better...
Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock,...