Tag: Ubuntu
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Moving to Ubuntu One
After a year and a half in the User Experience team at Canonical, I’ve decided to move to the Ubuntu One team. It’s been an amazing experience to be part of that team but I’ve been missing doing development on a regular basis a lot lately, so I’ve decided to move into a role where…
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Why test driven development rocks
All projects in Canonical have a strong focus on testing. From all of them, I think Bazaar ranks the highest on obsesiveness on testing. As a drive-by contributor, it always felt like a very high entry barrier, and deterred me from getting into complicated changes. It was only after I bit the bullet and got…
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Plans for the future of bzr-upload
During UDS Vincent and I made sure we shared a room so we could talk a bit about what we wanted for the future of bzr-upload. To ensure we didn’t loose any of the conversation, he took notes and sent them to me, so now I’m passing them on for those of you interested in…
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Research results on Launchpad icons
Following up on our survey on icons in Launchpad, Charline Poirier provides us with the outcome: Edit : High level of understanding, but a strong association with “attention”, “warning”, and “danger”. Might be worth modifying colour or shape to distance the icon from that interpretation. Merge : Reasonable understanding of “merge”. However, participants were not entirely sure if the icon referred to the state…
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Improving Launchpad icons, round 2
Following up on my last post about user testing icons, it has been incredibly successful! We’ve had over 100 responses, and are now going through the data to put together a summary. I will post information on our findings as soon as we finish the work. In the mean time, Charline Poirier, who is in…
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Launchpad is now fully open source
As promised, Launchpad has been fully open sourced (as opposed to the initial idea, nothing has been held back). Get it now, fix your favorite pet bug, and improve tens thousands of people’s experience. Mark Shuttleworth really deserves a lot of praise for this bold and brave move, open sourcing not only the code, but…
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Launchpad AJAX changing user habits
Check out what happened when AJAX bug tags editing landed in April: Note that since Launchpad has the edge/production split, so the changes in the graphs are less drastic since a set of users start interacting with new code before others.
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UDS repercussions
Check out UDS helping out the Gnome Zeitgeist developers: http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2009/06/udss-influence-on-gnome-zeitgeist/
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User Experience everywhere
About a month ago, I went to Canonical’s office in London for a sprint, and made good use of my Sunday by visiting the National Gallery. One fantastic thing about London, is the fact that all museums are free, not just because otherwise a few years back I couldn’t of afforded going, but because the…
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