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"user experience"

Ana Sereijo
19 April 2024

Let’s talk open design

Design Article

Why aren’t there more design contributions in open source? Help us find out! ...

Miona Aleksic
27 June 2023

Early access to the LXD graphical user interface

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Early access to LXD graphical user interface is now available. ...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 May 2022

Snapping PhotoNoteBook: Lessons from the kitchen table, or: How an Android app got converted to a Linux snap

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

This article was written by Alan Watson, with only small cosmetic changes from me. Having stumbled upon PhotoNoteBook, I asked Alan to write a guest blog post and share his project with the wider snap developer community. ===== The idea for PhotoNoteBook was seeded in 2018 after watching a Double-Glazing salesman measure my windows. He ...

Claudio Gomboli
19 April 2021

Multiculturalism and globalisation in user experience

Design Ubuntu tech blog

The worldwide Internet audience is growing exponentially less English speaking and less Western centred. In order to engage with this multicultural audience, designers need an interdisciplinary approach in order to expand the design practice with cross-cultural methods. ...

Femma
10 December 2015

Helsinki SDK sprint

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part of Ubuntu and provides an array of components and flexibility needed to create applications across staged and windowed form ...

Canonical
23 March 2013

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

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Inayaili de León Persson
26 January 2012

Some guidelines for warm grey text on the web

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Warm grey is one of the neutral colours from Ubuntu and Canonical’s colour palette. It has been added to the palette for balance, being a bridge between the vibrant orange and aubergine. The brand guidelines specify that warm grey (hex value: #AEA79F) can be used for: backgrounds, graphics, pictograms, dot patterns, charts and diagrams, a ...

Canonical
20 December 2011

Improving the Multi-Monitor Experience in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Over the past few months we have been working on improving the multi-monitor experience in Ubuntu. We took the opportunity at UDS in November to get some feedback on a prototype, which shows how we are planning to develop the multi-monitor experience over the next few cycles: Here is a short video of the prototype ...

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Participate in research

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current research project in London on the 3rd and 10th December. If this sounds like you please get in touch. ...

Canonical
10 June 2010

Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience. I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the ...