Archive for 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 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 [...]

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 my blog [...]

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 [...]

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 that a [...]