ubuntu-touch-coreapps team mailing list archive

[Christina Li <christina.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*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.
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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.*

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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
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Christina Li
User Experience Designer
Product Strategy | Ubuntu Platform | Design
christina.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:christina.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>