Design, user experience and development at Canonical
When you present yourself on the web, you have 15 seconds to make an impression, so aspiring champions of the web 2.0 industry have converged on a good recipe for success: Make your site visually...
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Light: the new look of Ubuntu
Jono Bacon, Alan Pope, and many others have written, yesterday we published a new visual story and style for Ubuntu. The core design work was lead by Marcus Haslam, Otto Greenslade and Dominic Edmunds,...
View ArticleLess is more. But still less.
One of the driving mantras for us is “less is more”. I want us to “clean up, simplify, streamline, focus” the user experience work that we lead. The idea is to recognize the cost of every bit of...
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Unity, and Ubuntu Light
A few months ago we took on the challenge of building a version of Ubuntu for the dual-boot, instant-on market. We wanted to be surfing the web in under 10 seconds, and give people a fantastic web...
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Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and the march to free software adoption
Prompted in part by the critique of Canonical’s code contributions to the kernel and core GNOME infrastructure, I’ve been pondering whether or not I feel good about what I do every day, and how I do...
View ArticleBuilding clouds for fun and profit
So you’d like to spin up an internal cloud for hadoop or general development, shifting workloads from AWS to your own infrastructure or prototyping some new cloud services? Call Canonical’s cloud...
View ArticleUbuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere
By 14.04 LTS Ubuntu will power tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the...
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Introducing Metal as a Service: provisioning for the hyperscale era
As we move from “tens” to “hundreds” to “thousands” of nodes in a typical data centre we need new tools and practices. This hyperscale story – of hyper-dense racks with wimpy nodes – is the big shift...
View Article#9 – Canonical’s cloud-init saves you from image soup, on every cloud
This is a series of posts on reasons to choose Ubuntu for your public or private cloud work & play. We run an extensive program to identify issues and features that make a difference to cloud...
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