It’s been a couple months since I left Los Angeles and Idealab to move to London and join Canonical’s new Design and User Experience team, which Mark blogged about in September:
We are hiring designers, user experience champions and interaction design visionaries and challenging them to lead not only Canonical’s distinctive projects but also to participate in GNOME, KDE and other upstream efforts to improve FLOSS usability.
The team is shaping up very nicely. We just got back from two fantastic weeks in Barcelona — one week spent meeting our new colleagues at AllHands, and one week spent establishing new design processes with the community and planning Karmic at UDS.
I will follow up with more detail about what we’re working on for Karmic once my jetlag subsides and I can write more freely. Before I finish I want to give kudos to Mark Shuttleworth and Ivanka Majic for putting together such an amazing team of artists and user experience fanatics. Free software has a beautiful future.
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Whoo! Ayatana / the user experience project is one of the biggest things that draws me to Ubuntu. ^.^
Good luck!
Congratulations, sure you’ll do a great job and improve the user experience in Ubuntu,
This is fantastic news. I was a little confused by Mark’s statement since I hadn’t heard anywhere that you’d been hired by Canonical. Congratulations to you! If you can bring the simplicity and usefulness of Gnome-Do to the Ubuntu experience, we’ll all be better for it. Good luck!
Congratulations, David. That is great news!
Well done on getting the job with Ubuntu, I’ve been enjoying Gnome-Do for quite a while now and passed on too various friends.
Would be interesting to see what happens with Ubuntu in the future with people like you working on it.
Jared, Ayatana is going to rock. We are all so excited about this project! Can you tell me what your expectations are?
Guillermo, I hope I can help but it will take all of us. If I can improve the user experience in any way, I hope it is by inspiring our amazing community to care at least as much about user experience and design as they care about other aspects of Free software.
Jonathan, I’ve already earned a small reputation within the company as a fervent minimalist
I think my repeated suggestions to use more purple everywhere are met with equal trepidation.
Gabriel, thanks! I hope you heard me pushing real hard during the Banshee session at UDS. Congrats on getting into main, it’s about time the best application won.
Shoot, I didn’t realize you were based in L.A. beforehand. Otherwise I would have invited you to our free-software meetups in Santa Monica.
Congrats on the new position.
Congrats David!!!
Congrats as well Dave!
Looking forward to see the results of your work. Have fun along the way.
Jetlag between London and Barcelona?
Congrats David. Hope you and the other guys will change Ubuntu/Gnome for the better. I’m a big fan of Ubuntu, I’m playing with it (and using it) since its first release, 4.10.
Congrats David. You will be a great addition to the team.
Any Kubuntu love in store for us stepchildren?
David,
I completely agree with the use of purple for theming. I’ve been inspired by Ubuntu Jaunty’s GDM to create a theme loosely on it incorporating brown aspects as well. It’s a community effort and stable for the most part.
bzr branch lp:hanso
Awesome work with Do and look forward to your contributions to Ayatana.
Regards,
dashua
Hi David
You made it to London! Fantastic. Be great to meet up in the near future… julian.
Congratulations on the move to Canonical! That’s exciting. Will you continue to work on Gnome Do? Is there any way you can make the install process for Gnome Do’s most current version easier in Ubuntu?
Very nice!
Keep doing the good work, Ubuntu!
It will kick the opensource even further open to others!
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