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Hey Christina, you should probably forward this to ubunt-phone-coreapps
too, rather than just ubuntu-phone

Zisu Andrei


On 8 March 2013 13:38, Christina Li <christina.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  *Hello everyone!
>
> Hope you are all having a great week! We had a busy week this week being
> involved in various UDS sessions, and in particular the session we had on
> the Ubuntu Touch Core Apps! Here’s some quick updates on what we’ve been
> working on this week.
>
> Core utility development
> As with last week, we are primarily focussing on the four core utility
> apps- Clock, Calendar, Calculator and Weather- as we introduced in Mika’s
> blogpost<http://design.canonical.com/2013/02/app-patterns-applied-core-utilities-for-ubuntu-on-phones/>.
> It’s been really exciting to see the development work for these apps and
> they are coming along really nicely!
>
> Core utility key journeys
> This week we have been busy sketching out and wireframing the key journeys
> for the Calculator app which you can see here<http://design.canonical.com/2013/03/app-patterns-applied-calculator-key-journeys/>.
> These are wireframes to communicate our ideas and key journeys, they are
> not visual designs.  The visual design will bring a greater level of detail
> and sophistication so watch this space!
>
> As always, we will do our best to answer all your questions about the App
> Design Guides <http://design.ubuntu.com/apps> or the core utility designs
> both here and on the ubuntu-touch IRC channel<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-touch>,
> but if you have any urgent questions blocking you, David Planella (dpm) is
> pretty persistent at getting our attention!
>
> Have a great weekend everyone,
>
> Till next week,
> Canonical Design Team.
> *
> *---
> Weekend reading
>
> Calculator key journeys<http://design.canonical.com/2013/03/app-patterns-applied-calculator-key-journeys/>
> Our key journeys for the Ubuntu Calculator app.
> Curious Rituals<http://curiousrituals.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/curious-rituals-book/>
> Honest and accurate descriptions on how we posture around our gadgets.
> The Psychology of the Todo list<http://mindhacks.com/2013/02/05/bbc-column-the-psychology-of-the-to-do-list/>
> Your mind loves it when a plan comes together – the mere act of planning
> how to do something frees us from the burden of unfinished tasks.
>
> ----
> Useful design nicknames in the ubuntu-touch IRC channel<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-touch>
>
> Calum Pringle : ckpringle
> Mika Meskanen : mesq
> Christina Li : christina
> *--
>
> Christina Li
> User Experience Designer
> Product Strategy | Ubuntu Platform | Design
> christina.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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