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Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Matthew Paul Thomas
23 April 2010

Refining the battery status menu

Ubuntu Notes

As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the design and any improvements we can make. ...


Canonical
23 April 2010

Magical Mystery Cafe

Ubuntu Design

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re right. Cabel Sasser is co-founder of a software company I’ve long admired and found a very interesting place to get a drink while ...


Canonical
23 April 2010

New strategic plan!

Ubuntu Design

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them Lean and agile and the chap quoted here is Herb Kelleher of Southwest airlines fame. Southwest are renowned for the way that the run their company. Highly responsive to ...


Canonical
23 April 2010

Curious displays

Ubuntu Design

Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment. ...


Canonical
22 April 2010

Future of eBooks?

Ubuntu Design

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application. ...


Canonical
22 April 2010

It’s good to talk

Ubuntu Design

Only a few posts in and our design blog is teeming with lively debate! Don’t forget that you can comment on these posts but if you feel an idea warrants a more open or broad conversation bring them over to the Ayatana mailing list. You can get involved in Ayatana by heading over to its ...


Canonical
22 April 2010

CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

Ubuntu Research

Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novices understand and correct such errors. This paper introduces HelpMeOut, a social recommender system that aids the debugging of error messages by sugges ...


Matthew Paul Thomas
21 April 2010

Farewell to the notification area

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior. Many programs that previously used the notification area should use other notification mechanisms instead. Some notification area items will be replaced by various system status menus ...


Canonical
21 April 2010

Ubuntu wallpapers

Ubuntu Design

In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from the Soft ...


Canonical
21 April 2010

What makes a good design critic?

Ubuntu Design

While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) session perhaps, something to turn into a blog post, food for thought.The session at CHI included a food critic, a ...


Canonical
15 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 15th April 2010

Ubuntu Design

Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.Last cycle’s winners were this cycles judges and everyone has delivered.Ladies and gentlemen I give you the results of the wallpaper competition!Congratulations to the winners and huge thanks to the judges. I know, from my ...