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"Design"

Canonical
3 March 2011

Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

One of our goals in the Unity design effort is maximising immersion in content, and reducing the amount of chrome and clutter needed around that content. Unity’s new Overlay Scrollbars are a small but important detail in this bigger picture. Problem Today’s scrollbars are optimized for cursor driven UI but they became easily unnecessary a ...

Canonical
16 February 2011

Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

 I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to observe the sessions. It was very useful to get his feedback and to work collaboratively with him on the analysis and implications of the findings. In addition to ...

Canonical
16 February 2011

DanRabbit on the Ubuntu One Desktop

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Hey Ubuntu One and Design fans! This is my first post here, and I have to say I feel priveledged to be able to write to you all. Recently I’ve been working with the Ubuntu One team on the desktop syncing apps, and trying to give them some special attention. I feel like these apps ...

Canonical
14 February 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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Canonical
26 January 2011

The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post about the contest will know we’re also reserving at least three places this release for non photographic wallpapers. The plan _was_ to use another site to manage these entries. ...

Canonical
20 January 2011

Free Culture Showcase

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom. ...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects to understand how d ...

Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The ...

Canonical
4 January 2011

Hebrew and Arabic on track

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some technical challenges, we have now finalised the Hebrew Regular and are making good tracks with the Arabic. You may remember the earlier post on the subject of the Hebrew ...

Canonical
21 December 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font API any web designer can now pick Ubuntu from the Google Font Directory and bring the beauty and legibility of the Ubuntu fonts to their web properties. Using Ubuntu ...

Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January ...

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