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Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Ubuntu Notes

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 collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January ...

Canonical
14 December 2010

Surveying contributions

Ubuntu Design

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? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36WWXCF It isn’t a quick one, but if you have about 20 minutes to spare then your response would be very much appreciated. I will publish the results on ...

Canonical
8 December 2010

Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801

Ubuntu Design

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 Idea #25801: Help the user understand when closing a window does not terminate the app. In other words, figure out to signal to the user that an application will ...

Canonical
7 December 2010

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

Ubuntu Design

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 to help people learn to use it. Great API design Is consistent, predictable, learnable. You are creating an API that developers will interact with. In the same way ...

Alejandra Obregon
27 November 2010

Participate in research

Ubuntu Research

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
26 November 2010

Papercuts: Litmus test

Ubuntu Development

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

Canonical
25 November 2010

Here come the Ninjas

Ubuntu Development

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

Canonical
19 November 2010

Paper cuts need you!

Ubuntu Notes

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 couple of things: 1) Only a handful of members in the Papercutters team are active on the project. 2) For a project to live ...

Canonical
18 November 2010

The monospace is coming

Ubuntu Design

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 typewriters, and more recently in some specialised printing environments such as Credit Card embossing, or ticketing. Today, monospace fonts are primarily used within a programming environme ...

Canonical
13 November 2010

Usability Testing of Unity

Ubuntu User Experience

In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users.  We are now better informed as to where we should expend further efforts to enhance the experience for users working with Unity. I summarize my findings below. Participants Selection We asked an external recruiting firm to find 15 participants who a ...

Canonical
12 November 2010

This week in design – 12 November 2010

Ubuntu Design

The theme of this week’s update is one of cool stuff that we came across this week in the world of open source. You’ll know from Christian’s blog post a while ago that we’re really interested in the idea of interacting with your computer physically. Christian experimented with the webcam in a laptop but imagine ...

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