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"Design"

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 ...

Andrea Bernabei
8 August 2016

Refreshed scrollbars!

Ubuntu Featured

You may have noticed that the scrollbars available on Ubuntu Touch and the Unity8 environment have recently received a huge overhaul in both visual appearance and user experience. More specifically, we redesigned the Scrollbar component (which is already provided in the Ubuntu UI Toolkit) and added a new ScrollView component that builds o ...

Canonical
4 August 2016

App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns

Ubuntu Featured

Last week we released phase 1 of the new App Design Guides, which included Get started and Building blocks. Now we have just released phase 2: Patterns. This includes handy guidance on gestures, navigation and layout possibilities to provide a great user experience in your app. Navigation: user journeys Find guidance for utilizing compone ...

Stephanie
2 August 2016

The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

Desktop Article

The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and developer wishing to build an app or scope on Ubuntu. We will be posting these guides over the coming days and weeks. What’s to come… Phase 1 – Get ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 August 2016

July’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of July: 9 tips to help you rock your first (or next) conference presentation Notes from the road The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 Sega vs Nintendo is back! Mini Mega Drive to rival Classic NES re-release Scientists ...

Barry McGee
29 July 2016

Developing for Vanilla v1

Phone and tablet Development

As Inayaili recently blogged, we are now working towards a goal of releasing Version one (v1) of Vanilla for early September. Maturity Vanilla was created just over a year ago and in that time has been used to build a wide range of sites across Canonical and beyond. It currently averages around 1,500 downloads a ...

Canonical
26 July 2016

New starter Raul (UX designer) – “I want to challenge myself to do the most difficult things”

Ubuntu Design

Meet the newest member of the design team, UX designer Raul Alvarez, who will be working on the Ubuntu convergence story. Raul will be bringing new ideas to improve our apps to allow for a seamless experience across all devices. We caught up with him to tell us more about his background and what attracted ...

Femma
22 July 2016

See what our interns got up to and what they thought of our apps

Ubuntu Design

Last week the design team had two interns undertaking their work experience at the London office. Our first student is studying computer science for her GCSEs and has an interest in Python programming and software engineering. The second student is studying Geography and IT and had a general interest in IT. The tasks We wanted ...

Elvi
19 July 2016

Introducing the new Juju store

Ubuntu Featured

Over the past few months, the Juju team has been working on a whole redesign of the Juju store homepage and we’re very happy to announce that it is now live! Juju is an application and service modelling tool that enables you to quickly model, configure, deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Juju comes ...

Canonical
8 July 2016

See our designs on Behance and Dribbble

Ubuntu Design

You can now follow us on Dribbble and Behance for design inspiration. See things like: the Ubuntu #reinvent digital campaign, Juju embeddable card and Suru app icon designs. Follow us 🙂 ...

Joseph Williams
4 July 2016

Juju Lithuania sprint recap

Ubuntu Notes

Last month the Juju design team was away in Lithuania, Vilnius on a working sprint. We met up with the distributed development team to help tackle technical and design issues. These sprints take away the barrier of time zones — which usually make it harder to ask engineers questions about features that are being designed. ...

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