Web engineering and design team
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The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the boundaries of the web.
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...
Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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 Natty cycle depends on you!What’s new this cycle and How you can get involved.
Announcing an all new team focused on fixing bugs, Papercuts Ninja team, and why you should be excited!
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...
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...
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...
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...
We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in...
I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a...
Almost all of the design team are in Orlando this week taking part in UDS. As well as getting ready for the summit in the last few weeks we’ve also been...