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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
26 August 2010

Second update to the Ubuntu Light themes

Ubuntu Design

Hi guys I’m Andrea Cimitan! 😉 Sorry for the delay but here we are, with an abundance of updates for Ambiance and its complementary bright theme, Radiance! It has been a great couple of weeks for me, where I continued working jointly with our visionary design lead Otto Greenslade, who I would like to thank ...

Canonical
20 August 2010

This week in design – 20 August 2010

Ubuntu Design

In honour of a comment made about design this week, we are rocking out as the heading to this weeks update on work in the design team. One area we’re rocking out HARD is the papercuts. Vish now informs me that we’ve fixed over 80 which will hopefully put us on track to get 100 ...

Canonical
20 August 2010

Meet Shinya Kimura

Ubuntu Design

I was reminded of this video by a piece of music that came on shuffle as I was working. Splendid short film, beautiful colour, and that noise! ...

Canonical
20 August 2010

A true italic

Ubuntu Design

In this latest post from Dalton Maag Lukas Paltram updates us on the development thinking that went into the italics in the new Ubuntu font family. ...

Canonical
16 August 2010

Get your photos on millions of computers!

Ubuntu Design

It’s that time again! We’ve been accepting submissions on the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group for a while now but with the deadline fast approaching for Beta we need to get together a shortlist and finalise the photo wallpapers that will be in the next Ubuntu release in October. ...

Canonical
16 August 2010

Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick

Ubuntu Desktop

Canonical is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack. With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen framework — from the kernel all the way through to applications. Our multi-touch team has worked closely with the Linux kernel and X.org communities to ...

Canonical
16 August 2010

Gone for a walk?!

Ubuntu Design

My new friend has gone missing! Have you seen Rick? ...

Canonical
13 August 2010

This week in design – 13 August 2010

Ubuntu Design

It’s Friday the 13th! Thankfully it’s past midday so safe to write this post. We’ve had a busy week although it’s been a bit quiet as people have been away on holidays or working remotely. First up this week? We can’t go anywhere without talking about the theme. Updates to the Ubuntu desktop theme Last ...

Canonical
13 August 2010

Finding the Ubuntu font design

Ubuntu Design

In our second post from Dalton Maag we get an insight into the origin of our very own Ubuntu font. ...

Canonical
13 August 2010

My new friend

Ubuntu Design

Very kindly donated to me by Ale on the design team here at Canonical. Maverick, Rick for short, sits proudly on my desk. He joins the lovely plush Lynx from the last release. Incidentally you can buy your own Lynx as well and help save the Lynx from extinction with a donation to the SOS ...

Canonical
11 August 2010

How are your users feeling? Example from Rhythmbox

Ubuntu Article

When conducting and writing up user research findings, I make a point of defining the experience goals alongside participant’s actual real life goals.  This is because, as users interact with a system, they are made to feel a certain way – just as people can, software can bring the best or the worst out of ...

Canonical
10 August 2010

The first milestone

Ubuntu Design

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and what’s coming. ...

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