Web engineering and design team
Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team
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.
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Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project
by Canonical on 10 June 2010
After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience....
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Well worth ten minutes of your time…
by Canonical on 8 June 2010
An illustration supporting a talk by Dan Pink about the hidden truths behind what really motivates us.
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Last week in London and Brussels
by Canonical on 31 May 2010
I spent the first part of last week in a small room in London with Andrea Cimitan, Daniel Foré and Otto Greenslade working on the amazing Murrine theme engine...
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The keyboard menu
by Matthew Paul Thomas on 27 May 2010
A new keyboard menu will replace both the keyboard layout toggle from Ubuntu’s doomed notification area, and the IBus menu for choosing a keyboard input method.
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New Ubuntu and Canonical sites
by Alejandra Obregon on 26 May 2010
The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date...
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The challenge of understanding icons
by Canonical on 26 May 2010
Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it...
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Colour management
by Canonical on 22 May 2010
I’ve been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn’t...
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Talk Type
by Marcus Haslam on 20 May 2010
At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), we invited Type Designer Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag to talk about the new open-source font design development...
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Ubuntu Maverick UDS group photo made with the Hugin Panorama Creator
by Canonical on 17 May 2010
Due to the weather and the layout of the hotel grounds at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) it was impossible to take the group...
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So long already? Nah! :)
by Canonical on 10 May 2010
Today saw the start of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for our next release Maverick Meerkat. This sentiment on the final slide of Mark’s presentation will...
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Hello, Unity
by Canonical on 10 May 2010
This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:Unity comprises:A launcher that makes opening...