Three main types of user behaviour found in ubuntu.com testing
Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing,…
Topic: User Experience
There are 16 posts filed under the topic 'User Experience'.
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App patterns applied: calculator key journeys
A few weeks ago we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys…
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App patterns applied : core utilities as rituals
We’ve been making great progress from both design and development on our four core utilities for Ubuntu on phones so,…
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App patterns explained: content views
When designing an app, an important thing to consider in your app is how to display content. In our design…
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App patterns applied: core utilities for Ubuntu on phones
Many of you must have noticed the call for core apps proposals that’s being run by the Ubuntu Community team.…
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App patterns explained : Layout
We want everyone to design and build beautiful and usable apps, and the App Design Guides help us do just that!…
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Announcing the App Design Guides
We’re very excited to have just released the first version of the App Design Guides, the go-to destination to design…
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Talking about gestures to Fast Company
Presenting Ubuntu on phones last month caused a bit of a stir in the tech press. One of the main…
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Behind the scenes: Notes
With the recent reveal of Ubuntu on phones, and now the release of an example “Notes” application and toolkit , we…
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Back to Lecturing for the day
In my last post, I spoke about my transition from academia to industry. One thing that I felt I would…
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Academia vs Industry
I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and…
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Some guidelines for warm grey text on the web
Warm grey is one of the neutral colours from Ubuntu and Canonical’s colour palette. It has been added to the…
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Thunderbird & Evolution Usability Testing
Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken…
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Usability Testing of Unity
In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users. We are now better informed as…
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Why do you use Ubuntu?
We’ve been looking at making developments to the Ubuntu website that explore and highlight the reasons for using Ubuntu above and beyond the features of the products. One idea we had was to invite community members and Ubuntu users to tweet or post about why they use Ubuntu and display this on the site. The community’s voice on the website would demonstrate one of the key drivers for using Ubuntu: showing the strength and commitment of the community, not just telling visitors about it. Adding the voice and personality of the community to the websites will enable members and users to participate in our site’s messaging and to share their passion for the concept and principles on which Ubuntu is based.
We decided to run a test yesterday to see how you responded and whether there was interest. There are some great replies.
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Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project
After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience. I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the [...]