Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Desktop"

320 posts

Canonical
7 December 2010

So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?

Design Ubuntu

I conducted 5 qualitative interviews with developers and here are some findings. You have two problems. The first problem is to design the API. The second is to help people learn to use it. Great API design Is consistent, predictable, learnable. You are creating an API that developers will interact with. In the same way

Canonical
7 December 2010

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Participate in research

Research Ubuntu

Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current research project in London on the 3rd and 10th December. If this sounds like you please get in touch.

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Canonical
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Development Ubuntu

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.

Canonical
26 November 2010

Canonical
25 November 2010

Here come the Ninjas

Development Ubuntu

Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!

Canonical
25 November 2010

Canonical
19 November 2010

Paper cuts need you!

Notes Ubuntu

You won’t be surprised to hear that I am on the Papercutters team and, in that capacity, was on the receiving end of an email from Vish who points out a couple of things: 1) Only a handful of members in the Papercutters team are active on the project. 2) For a project to live

Canonical
19 November 2010

Canonical
18 November 2010

The monospace is coming

Design Ubuntu

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on typewriters, and more recently in some specialised printing environments such as Credit Card embossing, or ticketing. Today, monospace fonts are primarily used within a...

Canonical
18 November 2010

Canonical
13 November 2010

Usability Testing of Unity

User Experience Ubuntu

In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users.  We are now better informed as to where we should expend further efforts to enhance the experience for users working with Unity. I summarize my findings below. Participants Selection We asked an external recruiting firm to find 15...

Canonical
13 November 2010

Canonical
12 November 2010

This week in design – 12 November 2010

Design Ubuntu

The theme of this week’s update is one of cool stuff that we came across this week in the world of open source. You’ll know from Christian’s blog post a while ago that we’re really interested in the idea of interacting with your computer physically. Christian experimented with the webcam in a laptop but imagine

Canonical
12 November 2010

Canonical
5 November 2010

This week in design – 5 November 2010

Design Ubuntu

We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in style. UDS-N was a great event and big thanks should go to Jono, Jorge, the Canonical admin and technical teams and everyone who attended sessions, took

Canonical
5 November 2010

Canonical
4 November 2010

Of hinting and tables

Design Ubuntu

I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a while since the last post. The 10.10 launch and UDS are over and it’s been great to get some feedback from people about how much

Canonical
4 November 2010

Canonical
27 October 2010

Introducing Ubuntu – The Movie!

Design Ubuntu

Almost all of the design team are in Orlando this week taking part in UDS. As well as getting ready for the summit in the last few weeks we’ve also been working on something we’re really excited about. You may have already seen this video we’ve commissioned which explains a little bit about what Ubuntu

Canonical
27 October 2010

Canonical
18 October 2010

What is UDS?

Notes Phone and tablet

We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a blog post explaining what the summit is all about.

Canonical
18 October 2010

Canonical
18 October 2010

Designing on Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

The recent Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition produced some good work. Lots of great photos and plenty of interesting music tracks were submitted.But only four videos…This made me think. Why only four? Was it because we didn’t talk about it enough? Or maybe there’s just not that many Ubuntu users interested in...

Canonical
18 October 2010

Canonical
15 October 2010

This week in design – 15 October 2010

Design Ubuntu

It’s out! We did it! YES! Well done everyone. Thanks for your support in helping make this latest release a good one. Our Meerkat is all grown up so what’s next? Well, we have a Narwhal on the way and it’s up to all of us to make him that little bit Natty 😉 For

Canonical
15 October 2010

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