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Weather & Clock app visual exploration

Thank you for all your positive feedback after our first blog post. We are very excited and are continuing with the designs, here’s a quick update on how...

Ubuntu 13.04 in context

The past couple of years have seen a fundamental shift in the way enterprise IT is done. This trend started with the consumerisation of corporate devices, and...

Responding to orientation

We have just published a new chapter on our App Design Guides : how to handle orientation. To cater for the different orientations of a range of touch...

Ubuntu 13.04 delivers OpenStack with high availability, scalable storage and big data deployment capabilities

Ubuntu 13.04 offers a complete solution for building highly available, flexible and secure OpenStack production clouds with scale out storage, networking and...

Designing in the open

On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15...

Enterprise cloud computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to...

Enterprise Cloud Computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to...

Spring cleaning ubuntu.com

Yesterday we’ve launched an updated version of ubuntu.com, which we hope will improve navigation throughout the site and provide visitors with a better...


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Core utility apps visual exploration

Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock,...

Ubuntu makes a splash in media

The Chinese government has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu as the basis for a new reference architecture for a Chinese OS in order to provide a flexible, open,...

Rapid progress keeps development on target

An interview with Richard Collins, product manager for Ubuntu phones.

The design vision for Ubuntu

An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical.

Moonshot: a milestone in hyperscale

Hyperscale will completely change the way enterprises design, deploy and manage servers

Core utility apps process update

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...

App patterns applied: weather key journeys

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...

Good Ubuntu books?

A few weeks ago we received a copy of the “No Starch Press” book “Ubuntu Made Easy”, by Rickford Grant with Phil Bull. The book’s main goal – which we fully...


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