Ubuntu Desktop

Can We Appropriate Design?

by Canonical on 13 January 2011

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the...

Bright, light and beautiful!

by Canonical on 13 January 2011

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some...

Hebrew and Arabic on track

by Canonical on 4 January 2011

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some...

Design Museum exhibition London

by Marcus Haslam on 20 December 2010

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a...

Surveying contributions

by Canonical on 14 December 2010

If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey?...

Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801

by Canonical on 8 December 2010

The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate...

So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?

by Canonical on 7 December 2010

I conducted 5 qualitative interviews with developers and here are some findings. You have two problems. The first problem is to design the API. The second is...

Participate in research

by Alejandra Obregon on 27 November 2010

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...

Papercuts: Litmus test

by Canonical on 26 November 2010

Papercuts Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.

Here come the Ninjas

by Canonical on 25 November 2010

Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!

Paper cuts need you!

by Canonical on 19 November 2010

You won’t be surprised to hear that I am on the Papercutters team and, in that capacity, was on the receiving end of an email from Vish who points out a...

The monospace is coming

by Canonical on 18 November 2010

In contrast to a proportionally spaced font a the characters in a monospace occupy all exactly the same width. In the past monospace type was used on...