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 bounderies of the web.
Cloud and server
Join in UbuntuVoice: be the voice of millions of Ubuntu users
by Canonical on 10 September 2013
In past years, we have had many Ubuntu users getting involved in helping with our user research. Now we feel it’s time to form a user research network, which...
Ubuntu
Music app: focus on the content
by Canonical on 20 August 2013
Music apps that allow users to switch between player and queue mode can be quite complex. Some challenges of music apps in general: Deep navigation through...
Cloud and server
Usability testing: how do we design effective tasks
by Canonical on 16 August 2013
Previously, Charline Poirier provided an excellent post about how to recruit representative participants for usability testing. To continue the story, we are...
Ubuntu
Calendar App Visuals
by Canonical on 6 August 2013
Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring visual directions for the calendar app. It’s a pretty exciting opportunity to create something fresh and at the...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Edge: Design process
by Canonical on 26 July 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Shorts visual exploration
by Canonical on 18 July 2013
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...
Ubuntu
See your photos and illustrations in Ubuntu 13.10
by Canonical on 12 July 2013
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!
Ubuntu
Unlocking the phone
by Canonical on 2 July 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust
by Canonical on 28 June 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Latest design guides
by Canonical on 25 June 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Solving multiple calendar views
by Canonical on 21 June 2013
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....
Ubuntu
Motion Graphics Presentation for Ubuntu Mobile
by Canonical on 24 May 2013
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...