Blog posts tagged "Design"

At the beginning of the year our team – who look after the core websites in the Ubuntu ecosystem – decided to adjust our project delivery process and go full-on Scrum. This is hardly shocking news these days. Actually, you can find way more people writing about how they decided to ditch Scrum and what

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: Framer – Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations Cinematic Continuity in User Interface Design The Design Issue 2016 – Bloomberg Businessweek Improving your UX and UI with phantom guides Still thinking you don’t need HTTPS? Your kids mig

April marks the release of Xerus 16.4 and with it we bring a new design of our iconic wallpaper. This post will take you through our design process and how we have integrated our Suru visual language. Evolution The foundation of our recent designs are based on our Suru visual language, which encompasses our core

Recently, you may have seen our new colour palette update in the SDK. One notable change is the new hex code we’ve assigned to Ubuntu Orange for screen use. The new colour is #E95420. We have a post coming soon that will delve deeper into our new palette but for now we just wanted to

Last month, the web team had an offsite (outside of the office) week sprint in Holborn, central London. We don’t all work on exactly the same projects in our day-to-day, so it’s nice to have this type of sprint, where everyone can work together and show each other what we’ve been working on over the

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: LEGO Serious Play Micro Lego Serious Play: How small can a useful tool for thinking be? The world’s 15 most complicated subway maps Railway maps Your Job Ad: The Start of a Great Hiring Experience Google Resizer Artist Creates Astonishing Ubuntu

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the shortest month of the year: Digital Design Education is Broken My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours Persona Never Ask What They Want—3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews Celebrating Cities: A New Look and Feel for Uber Pure CSS – Alarm

It’s day 3 and the stand is nearing completion. The funky lights have been fitted, the meeting rooms have curvaceous walls inspired by the Ubuntu shape, and the cloud and phone demo pods are ready to rock some products for you to try. Stay tuned tomorrow for some final pictures of behind the scenes at MWC! One

It’s day two behind the scenes at MWC and the stand is starting to take shape. The iconic orange Ubuntu flags are up, the walls and doors have been assembled, and the flooring has been put down. We are nearly there…   Stay tuned tomorrow to see our final preparations for the stand.

Today we launched a new and redesigned tablet section on ubuntu.com that introduces all the cool features of the upcoming BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. Breaking out of the box In this redesign, we have broken out of the box, removing the container that previously held the content of the pages. This makes each

Juju is a cloud orchestration tool with a lot of unique terminology. This is not so much of a problem when discussing or explaining terms or features within the site or the GUI, but, when it comes to external sources, the context is sometimes lost and everything can start to get a little confusing. So

Maybe, like me, you seen more of the inside of your gym in January than you had for the six months previous. New year, new diet, new me.. or something like that. A big creeping problem in recent years is that websites have been on an all out binge, and not just over the winter holidays

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of the year: The Website Obesity Crisis Cryptaris Mission Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern Content & Display Patterns BrandColors Towards better meetings This tool connects pencil stubs together Build your own planet Solar System: 5 Things To Know

Our cloud design team has just returned from a trip to Cape Town for our mid-cycle sprint. We have the luxury of being collocated in London and working closely throughout the whole year, but these sprints give us an invaluable opportunity to collaborate with other stakeholders and engineers working around the world. We get together

In the coming months, users will start noticing things looking more and more different on Ubuntu. As we gradually roll out our new and improved Suru visual language, you’ll see apps and various other bits of the platform take on a lighter, more clean and cohesive look. Why refresh apps at all? As Ubuntu brings

Happy 2016! Here are the best links shared by the design team in December: Stance Star Wars socks 24 Ways Sketch Blog: Leaving the Mac App Store 12 Devs Web Development Calendars for 2015 These photos are why I’m trapped in Tokyo forever now Inside Abbey Road Improve the Apple remote with a purple rubber