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Canonical
12 April 2013

Core utility apps visual exploration

Ubuntu Featured

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, weather and calendar (calculator and an updated notepad soon too I promise!). It is important to note that this is still an early stage in the design process. Our ...


Canonical
11 April 2013

Ubuntu makes a splash in media

Phone and tablet Article

The Chinese government has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu as the basis for a new reference architecture for a Chinese OS in order to provide a flexible, open, widely-used and standardised operating system. Moreover, The China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP), Canonical and the National University of Defense Technology (N ...


Canonical
11 April 2013

Rapid progress keeps development on target

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with Richard Collins, product manager for Ubuntu phones. ...


Canonical
11 April 2013

The design vision for Ubuntu

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical. ...


Canonical
9 April 2013

Moonshot: a milestone in hyperscale

Ubuntu News

Hyperscale will completely change the way enterprises design, deploy and manage servers ...


Canonical
5 April 2013

Core utility apps process update

Ubuntu Notes

Well done to everyone working on the core utility apps – we’ve made amazing progress so let’s celebrate that! We all want to see what’s coming up so here’s a summary of where we have been, where we are now and where we are going in our design process. Right hand side image : our ...


Canonical
26 March 2013

App patterns applied: weather key journeys

Ubuntu Notes

These last few weeks we have looked at the concepts behind our ritual apps, and explored key journeys for each. Now it is the turn of the weather app! Sitting down with visual design (visual designs coming soon, watch this space!), we fleshed out the original weather concept to explore how it will meet the user ...


Good Ubuntu books?

Ubuntu Notes

A few weeks ago we received a copy of the “No Starch Press” book “Ubuntu Made Easy”, by Rickford Grant with Phil Bull. The book’s main goal – which we fully approve of! – is to introduce Ubuntu to newcomers by taking readers through the various projects, with step-by-step instructions which demonstrate how to do ...


Canonical
23 March 2013

Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing

Ubuntu User Experience

Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing, some insights surfaced about user behaviour, which could help to shape a great user experience for our website. We share the three mains ones here. They have been much discussed in the UX, and the ...


Canonical
22 March 2013

App patterns applied: clock key journeys

Ubuntu Article

Moving forward with the design of the core apps, we’ve been working on the interaction details of the clock for a while now, building on these concepts introduced a few weeks ago. As with the calendar and calculator, we have outlined typical tasks a user wants to accomplish. We call them key journeys. We have grouped the key ...


Canonical
21 March 2013

Canonical and Chinese standards body announce Ubuntu collaboration

Desktop News

CSIP defines a new reference architecture for standard operating systems in China CSIP, Canonical and NUDT from the CCN Open Source Innovation Joint Lab to further that standard CCN Joint Lab will produce Ubuntu Kylin, with first release expected in conjunction with Ubuntu 13.04 in April 2013. London and Beijing, 21 March 2013: The China ...