Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1486 posts by Canonical
Phone and tablet
The design vision for Ubuntu
by Canonical on 11 April 2013
An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical.
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Moonshot: a milestone in hyperscale
by Canonical on 9 April 2013
Hyperscale will completely change the way enterprises design, deploy and manage servers
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Core utility apps process update
by Canonical on 5 April 2013
Well done to everyone working on the core utility apps – we’ve made amazing progress so let’s celebrate that! We all want to see what’s coming up so here’s a...
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App patterns applied: weather key journeys
by Canonical on 26 March 2013
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...
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Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing
by Canonical on 23 March 2013
Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing, some insights surfaced...
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App patterns applied: clock key journeys
by Canonical on 22 March 2013
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...
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Canonical and Chinese standards body announce Ubuntu collaboration
by Canonical on 21 March 2013
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...
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13.04 wallpapers submitted
by Canonical on 19 March 2013
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...
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App patterns explained : navigation
by Canonical on 13 March 2013
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...
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13.04 Shortlist in progress
by Canonical on 12 March 2013
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...
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Canonical announces certification and support for the latest Dell PowerEdge servers
by Canonical on 11 March 2013
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...
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App patterns applied: calculator key journeys
by Canonical on 7 March 2013
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....