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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

James Mulholland
14 October 2015

Community interview – Dan Chapman

Ubuntu User Experience

We sat down with Dekko star Dan Chapman to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu and his excitement for the release of the Pocket Desktop. Dan has been an active member of the Community since 2013, where he has worked closely with our Design Team to create one of our first ...

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Keynotes from my first PyCon – friendly and inspiring

Ubuntu Featured

Last weekend I went to my first Pycon, my second conference in a fortnight. The conference runs from Friday to Monday, with 3 days of talks followed by one day of “sprints”, which is basically a hack day. PyCon has a code of conduct to discourage any form of othering: Happily, PyCon UK is a ...

Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Python learnings from PyCon

Ubuntu Featured

The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract. Here I’m going to talk about the other talks I saw, which were generally more technical or at least had more to do with Python. Summary The talks I saw covered a whole range of ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 October 2015

September’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual Emotional Intelligence in Design Earth View from Google Socality Barbie Origamica Hello, My Name is <Error> Design research guide Introducin ...

Canonical
28 September 2015

Why the first impression matters

Ubuntu User Experience

We believe that the first impression matters, especially when it comes to introducing a new product for the first time. Our aim is to delight the user from the moment they open the box, through to the setup wizard which will help them get started with their new device. Devices have become an essential part ...

Robin Winslow
28 September 2015

Prepare for when Ubuntu freezes

Ubuntu Notes

I routinely have at least 20 tabs open in Chrome, 10 files open in Atom (my editor of choice) and I’m often running virtual machines as well. This means my poor little X1 Carbon often runs out of memory, at which point Ubuntu completely freezes up, preventing me from doing anything at all. Just a ...

Jamie Young
18 September 2015

dConstruct 2015

Ubuntu Notes

We had a great time at dConstruct in Brighton last Friday. Ubuntu was the premier sponsor of the event, so 15 of us headed down from London in the small hours of the morning to set up our stand and enjoy a day out. Origami competition Our stand became a landscape of wolves and unicorns ...

Inayaili de León Persson
8 September 2015

We’re going to be at dConstruct!

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu is once again sponsoring the excellent dConstruct conference, taking place this Friday, 11th September in Brighton. This year’s theme is “Designing the future” and we can’t wait to hear what the stellar lineup of speakers has to share. As ever, if you’re going to be there, come and say hi, and grab a few ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2015

August’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

The design team members are constantly sharing interesting, fun, weird, links with each other, so we thought it might be a nice idea to share a selection of those links with everyone. Here are the links that have been passed around during last month: Scaling Agile At Spotify Design Documentaries A Designer’s Guide to Wearables ...

Tristram Oaten
24 August 2015

Publishing Vanilla

Ubuntu Development

We’ve got a new CSS framework at Canonical, named Vanilla. My colleague Ant has a great write-up introducing Vanilla. Essentially it’s a CSS microframework powered by Sass. The build process consists of two steps, an open source build, and a private build. Open Source Build While there are inevitably componants that need to be kept privat ...

Robin Winslow
18 August 2015

Django behind a proxy: Fixing absolute URLs

Ubuntu Notes

I recently tried to setup OpenID for one of our sites to support authentication with login.ubuntu.com, and it took me much longer than I’d anticipated because our site is behind a reverse-proxy. My problem I was trying to setup OpenID with the django-openid-auth plugin. Normally our sites don’t include absolute links (https://example.com/ ...

Robin Winslow
5 August 2015

Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library

Ubuntu Notes

We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our Ubuntu and Canonical branded sites and others. One of the reasons we created Vanilla was because we ran into significant problems trying to use Guidelines across multiple different sites ...

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