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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.

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26 March 2013

App patterns applied: weather key journeys

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These last few weeks we have looked at the concepts behind our ritual apps, and explored key journeys for each. Now it is the turn of the weather app! Sitting down with visual design (visual designs coming soon, watch this space!), we fleshed out the original weather concept to explore how it will meet the user ...

Canonical
23 March 2013

Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing

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Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing, some insights surfaced about user behaviour, which could help to shape a great user experience for our website. We share the three mains ones here. They have been much discussed in the UX, and the ...

Canonical
22 March 2013

App patterns applied: clock key journeys

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Moving forward with the design of the core apps, we’ve been working on the interaction details of the clock for a while now, building on these concepts introduced a few weeks ago. As with the calendar and calculator, we have outlined typical tasks a user wants to accomplish. We call them key journeys. We have grouped the key ...

Canonical
21 March 2013

Canonical and Chinese standards body announce Ubuntu collaboration

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CSIP defines a new reference architecture for standard operating systems in China CSIP, Canonical and NUDT from the CCN Open Source Innovation Joint Lab to further that standard CCN Joint Lab will produce Ubuntu Kylin, with first release expected in conjunction with Ubuntu 13.04 in April 2013. London and Beijing, 21 March 2013: The China ...

Canonical
19 March 2013

13.04 wallpapers submitted

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  The community team for wallpaper selection got together last week #1304wallpaper on Freenode and between us we’ve determined that we’d like to submit the following images as our delightful wallpaper selection for 13.04. Many thanks to everyone who came to discuss options and help with the selection and in particular those who highlighte ...

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13 March 2013

App patterns explained : navigation

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When we design an app, we consider the different types of information we are communicating and their relationships to one another. This helps us establish what content is of equal importance, what we want to be able to do with it, what is a detailed view of something else and so on. We use three ...

Canonical
12 March 2013

13.04 Shortlist in progress

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13.04 Shortlist in progress, a gallery on Flickr. A quick update, the previous contributors and I are putting together the finishing touches to what we hope will be a great selection. You can see our working over on a Google spreadsheet we’ve made. We’ll be packaging and downloading and shrinking and all sorts to get ...

Canonical
11 March 2013

Canonical announces certification and support for the latest Dell PowerEdge servers

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Canonical today announced that it has signed a collaborative engineering agreement with Dell to support Ubuntu 12.04 LTS across the full range of Dell’s latest 12th generation PowerEdge Servers for Ubuntu Advantage customers. Over 45 Dell PowerEdge Servers have been certified by Canonical for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Customers who buy the Ubuntu ...

Canonical
7 March 2013

App patterns applied: calculator key journeys

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A few weeks ago we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. We use key screens to communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how ...

Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied : core utilities as rituals

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We’ve been making great progress from both design and development on our four core utilities for Ubuntu on phones so, while we are iterating these concepts, we thought this was a good time to share more of the inspiration behind the apps designs. This helps us keep our goals in sight, not only on the ...

Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied: calendar key journeys

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Last week we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. Whereas the key screens communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how users can accomplish ...

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