Nineteen heads are
better than one.
I lead, inspire, encourage and chastise the design team. I am an advocate and practitioner of user-centred design. I have accepted the challenge of putting free software in front of the curve for design excellence.
I look after user experience for the web. I am extremely fond of paper, pens, pencils and felt tips. I also like: printmaking, black cabs and dinosaurs.
Has a growing passion for open source software and operating systems (one in particular). Has an obsession with pixels - if one's out of place, I will notice. Lives design and has done for years. Likes breaking rules and challenging convention. Loves his fixed gear bicycles and sunshine.
Inayaili is a Portuguese designer. She is part of the Canonical Web Team and her main job is to make sure the Ubuntu brand is represented to its higher standard online.
Has a conviction (for producing great work) Has been (A lecturer at The University of the Arts) Has a passion (For type and Ubuntu) Has never considered using Windows Has a beard
Matthew has been involved in open source design since 1999, contributing to Mozilla, WordPress, Gnome, Launchpad, and Ubuntu. He has worked for Canonical since 2004, and is a generalist on the Design team — equally happy laying out Web sites, critiquing themes, moderating user tests, or designing new applications. Redesigning interfaces is his third-favourite activity.
I started to use computers to design things, but I got very into it when these started to be animated accordingly to user inputs or other data. That's how I ended up self-teaching different development environments and attending a MA in Interactive Objects, Spaces and Services Design on the way. After a career as developer and technical manager in leading digital agencies in London, and some personal research, I am willing, and ready, to make a difference at a whole new level.
I am an anthropologist because I think people are great and mysterious. They fascinate me ... and there are lots of them. I have a favourite author, Vygotsky, and some favourite ways of looking at the world - through activity theory, ethnomethodology and semiotics. With these, I can examine people's behaviours and needs from many perspectives and get to know things about them that they don't even know themselves.
Hello, so, writing a bio about yourself is difficult huh! Briefly; I’m an interaction designer, interested in inclusive / this-should-be-common-sense design; passionate for meaningful and thought provoking design that is actually of benefit to others. I love brainstorming within a team, coming up with creative solutions and taking that to a tangible, fully formed concept. Oh and I’m Scottish, play the piano, like to travel and don’t go anywhere without my camera and laptop.
I started playing with computers in my formative years and never stopped! After more than a decade of getting paid to indulge my computer addiction, I now design user experience interaction architecture for the Ubuntu desktop. My passion is designing and defining innovative and integrated UX architectures from initial concepts and business strategy ideas through to functional specification and implementation. I believe in an iterative, agile approach to design, and that a coherent interaction architecture is the foundation upon which any great product is built. In the brief moments I can pry myself away from my monitor I am usually found drinking, partying, diving, playing squash or driving a 7.5t truck (though not always simultaneously).
Brompton cyclist, tool-maker and lab technician to the super-stars above. Tends to spend much time thinking about the beauty of vector graphics, packaging, PDFs, Python and the wonderful Ubuntu Font Family.
Hello, I'm Ellen and I keep the web team organised. I really like planning things. This stems from a slight obsession with road trips. I also like gummy bears, yoga, swimming and am addicted to black coffee.
I'm Emily, I'm a Graphic Designer and I work with the comms team designing all the printed materials for Ubuntu. I like to learn something new every day, which is handy considering where I work. I am a fan of good food, good films, and the Oxford comma.
Hello, my name is Mika and I serve the free software cause as principal designer for the upcoming Ubuntu Phone. I attended a university at the Polar Circle, hold an MA in New Media and worked several years in Berlin on interactive installations, mobile interfaces and location-based services. I've got a knack for sauna, I wear a black beret, ride a green fixie and enjoy fresh coffee brewed with love.
I am the Unity Project Manager and I have worked on many and varied software development projects over the last 15 years or so. Working as a part of the Design Team means that I get to be like Tron and "fight for the users". When not working here at Canonical I enjoy as much music as I can wrap my ears around, folding pieces of paper into interesting geometric shapes and carving spoons out of green wood.
I am a visual designer and I work on Ubuntu One. I really love wrapping my brain around all those different platforms!
When not working, I enjoy eating, surfing (badly), reading a minimum of 3 books at the same time and freediving.
When not working, I enjoy eating, surfing (badly), reading a minimum of 3 books at the same time and freediving.
Hello, my name is Stewart. I am a User Experience Architect and I love to design and prototype software, and help to see it built. Prior to specialising in interaction design, I spent some time as a product designer and a software developer. My daemon is a tiger called Brianna.
We aim to create discussion, further understanding of user research and establish quality in all aspects of the design process.
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