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Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

October’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New York City and online Halloween Costumes for Designers The Worst Portfolio Ever The Sanctity of Your Calendar Using Normal doors to inform your next design ...

Joseph Williams
20 October 2016

Working to make Juju more accessible

Ubuntu Notes

In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to ...

Grazina Borosko
20 October 2016

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

Ubuntu Featured

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases following Xenial Xerus. You can read about our wallpaper visual design process here. Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak (light version) ...

Tom Macfarlane
12 October 2016

Ubuntu Core

Ubuntu Featured

Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all Ubuntu Core branding, online and in print.     Guidelines for use Core Use the Core logo when the Ubuntu logo or the word Ubuntu appears within the same field of vision. ...

Inayaili de León Persson
12 October 2016

A week in Vancouver with the Landscape team

Ubuntu Design

Earlier this month Peter and I headed to Vancouver to participate in a week-long Landscape sprint. The main goals of the sprint were to review the work that had been done in the past 6 months, and plan for the following cycle. IRL Landscape is a totally distributed team, so having regular face-to-face time throughout ...

Inayaili de León Persson
3 October 2016

September’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of September: Empty States It’s ok to say what’s ok Sully – 208 Seconds Experience Google Allo Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem Redesigning Chrome desktop Clarity Conference videos Thank you to Alejandra, Jamie, Joe and me for the ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2016

August’s reading list

Phone and tablet Notes

August has been a quiet month, as many of team have taken some time off to enjoy the unusually lovely London summer weather, but we have a few great links to share with you that were shared by the design team this month: Developing a Crisis Communication Strategy Accessibility Guidelines An Evening with Cult Sensation ...

Rae Shambrook
17 August 2016

What is the best way to display online status? We tested it

Ubuntu Research

Recently I have been working on the visual design for RCS (which stands for rich communications service) group chat. While working on the “Group Info” screen, we found ourselves wondering what the best way to display an online/offline status. Some of us thought text would be more explicit but others thought  it adds more noise ...

Canonical
15 August 2016

Convergent terminal

Ubuntu User Experience

We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work so far, invite users of the app to comment on the new designs, and share ideas on what other new features would be desirable. ...

Canonical
9 August 2016

Competition winner – Timer App

Ubuntu Design

Back in June we hosted a competition that asked developers to use the AdaptivePageLayout component from the UI toolkit to create an app that converges across devices. We had some very impressive entires that used the component in different ways; choosing a winner was hard. However, after testing all the apps the design team chose a ...

Anthony Dillon
8 August 2016

Web team hack day

Ubuntu Featured

Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily tasks in the office and think of ideas that we would like to work on. The morning started with coffee and sitting in ...

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