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Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity
by Canonical on 3 March 2011
One of our goals in the Unity design effort is maximising immersion in content, and reducing the amount of chrome and clutter needed around that content....
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Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!
by Canonical on 16 February 2011
I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to...
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DanRabbit on the Ubuntu One Desktop
by Canonical on 16 February 2011
Hey Ubuntu One and Design fans! This is my first post here, and I have to say I feel priveledged to be able to write to you all. Recently I’ve been working...
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The Natty Wallpaper contest – an important update!
by Canonical on 26 January 2011
Two weeks into our wallpaper contest we’re seeing lots of really interesting entries for the photographic part. As those of you who read the previous post...
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Free Culture Showcase
by Canonical on 20 January 2011
Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?...
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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...