Blog posts tagged "Research"
Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source...
Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source...
New federal compliance rules meant that NMSU Physical Science Laboratory needed a new operating system. Learn more about why they chose Ubuntu.
In this blog post, I’ll do a deep dive into the process of designing a small feature on ubuntu.com – from the original need, right through the design phase...
New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 —...
A quick ‘how to’ on using Amazon’s Transcribe service to turn user interview recordings into text-transcripts.
OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the
Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design...
Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and...
Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our...
Recently we hired an external consultant to compare the usability of 2 email clients: Thunderbird and Evolution. I have taken some highlights from the report...
First and last impressions of Unity were that it was quite user-friendly, and pleasing in its design and ease of learning. The majority of participants left...
I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to...
’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the...
Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home?We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current...
We recently conducted usability testing to see how users respond to Ubuntu on their first encounter. Overall, first impressions are good. Typical remarks...