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,…
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Understanding user behaviour through user research is an integral part of our design process. In the last ubuntu.com website testing,…
A few weeks ago we introduced key screens for our core utility app designs, and we’ve been sketching key journeys…
We’ve been making great progress from both design and development on our four core utilities for Ubuntu on phones so,…
When designing an app, an important thing to consider in your app is how to display content. In our design…
Many of you must have noticed the call for core apps proposals that’s being run by the Ubuntu Community team.…
We want everyone to design and build beautiful and usable apps, and the App Design Guides help us do just that!…
We’re very excited to have just released the first version of the App Design Guides, the go-to destination to design…
Presenting Ubuntu on phones last month caused a bit of a stir in the tech press. One of the main…
With the recent reveal of Ubuntu on phones, and now the release of an example “Notes” application and toolkit , we…
In my last post, I spoke about my transition from academia to industry. One thing that I felt I would…
I have now worked at Canonical, ‘The company behind Ubuntu,’ for almost 4 months. The time has flown by, and…
Warm grey is one of the neutral colours from Ubuntu and Canonical’s colour palette. It has been added to the…
Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken…
In preparation for UDS, we conducted usability testing of Unity with general public users. We are now better informed as…
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.
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 [...]