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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
13 March 2013

App patterns explained : navigation

Ubuntu Notes

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 what content is of equal importance, what we want to be able to do with it, what is a detailed view of something else and so on. We use three ...


Canonical
12 March 2013

13.04 Shortlist in progress

Ubuntu Design

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 will be a great selection. You can see our working over on a Google spreadsheet we’ve made. We’ll be packaging and downloading and shrinking and all sorts to get ...


Canonical
11 March 2013

Canonical announces certification and support for the latest Dell PowerEdge servers

Ubuntu News

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 latest 12th generation PowerEdge Servers for Ubuntu Advantage customers. Over 45 Dell PowerEdge Servers have been certified by Canonical for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Customers who buy the Ubuntu ...


Canonical
7 March 2013

App patterns applied: calculator key journeys

Ubuntu Article

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. We use key screens to communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how ...


Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied : core utilities as rituals

Ubuntu User Experience

We’ve been making great progress from both design and development on our four core utilities for Ubuntu on phones so, while we are iterating these concepts, we thought this was a good time to share more of the inspiration behind the apps designs. This helps us keep our goals in sight, not only on the ...


Canonical
27 February 2013

App patterns applied: calendar key journeys

Ubuntu Notes

Last week we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys ever since to unpack these concepts further. Whereas the key screens communicate the overall, high level concept of an app, outlining key journeys is a design technique that gives us a feel for how users can accomplish ...


Canonical
22 February 2013

App patterns explained: content views

Ubuntu User Experience

When designing an app, an important thing to consider in your app is how to display content. In our design guidelines, we have provided three standard views: Grid, List and Full screen which we think will cover most situations. Grid view Content divided into rows and columns is referred to as a grid view. The ...


Canonical
19 February 2013

Ubuntu unveils tablet experience with multi-tasking

Ubuntu News

Unique ‘side stage’ multi-tasking puts phone and tablet apps on a single tablet screen Secure enterprise tablets with full disk encryption, multiple secure user accounts and standard management tool that covers Ubuntu server, PC and touch Unique convergence across all four form factors: a phone can provide tablet, TV and PC interfaces whe ...


Canonical
18 February 2013

Dell’s Ubuntu based Developer laptop just got better

Ubuntu Partners

Dell announced today an updated XPS 13, preloaded with Ubuntu, which has a full high-definition 1080p display. It will be available for sale in the USA  and Canada, but as part of this update Dell will also be making it available in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.   As we reported in ...


Canonical
15 February 2013

Ubuntu for smartphones grabs global headlines

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with Chris Kenyon, VP Sales and Marketing, and Sian Aherne, Media and Analyst Relations at Canonical. ...


Canonical
15 February 2013

Developers get the full support they need

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with David Planella, Ubuntu Community and David Pitkin, Online Services Native and HTML5 apps. ...


Canonical
15 February 2013

App patterns applied: core utilities for Ubuntu on phones

Ubuntu User Experience

Many of you must have noticed the call for core apps proposals that’s being run by the Ubuntu Community team. The response has been great, thanks to everyone taking part! In the Design Team, we thought that we could chip in to this effort and come up with some design concepts that reflect the vision ...