Comments on: S03E03 – Behind The Screen

By: Chuck's Words › Stepping Down As Ubuntu Maryland Leader

Chuck's Words › Stepping Down As Ubuntu Maryland Leader — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:18:24 +0000

[...] of this time period was the interview with the Canonical Design Team Lead Ivanka Majic on the Ubuntu-UK March 17 podcast. At least one of her staff used Photoshop for their work rather than push for retraining. A little [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:41:33 +0000

I think the previous comment about Ivanka Majic was a bit harsh. I was disappointed that she had no vision concerning the future of Ubuntu look and feel. I would of hoped that she could have articulated the overall vision for Ubuntu and what was on the cards for 10.10. I was pleased that she was going to look at the communication issue, when making changes that would affect users (position of buttons).

Good interview though! More please!

Sam

By: me

me — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:57:53 +0000

Ivanka Majic seems like a real liability. She talked for hours, and said nothing. She sounds like an under rehearsed politician.

She didn’t justify any of the new design or usability decisions. Every hard question was just defected into woolly discussion of her team or how problems are hard to solve and it’s impossible to explain…

She didn’t even try to answer the questions about why the buttons are on the left.

A master in the art of BS but ultimately a useless business-speak spouting drone.

By: Mannemerak

Mannemerak — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:09:34 +0000

I also like the podcast and will never use Ubuntu, but just because I like my cutting-edge ArchLinux system and KDE better. Never had any luck with Kubuntu.
The cast comes off way more mature than the other Opensource/Linux podcast I have tried listening to (and I have listened to a lot of crap out there)

By: ZVI

ZVI — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:10 +0000

Where’s the link to the lecture on usability at Lugradio Live?

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:49 +0000

Just to add my 2p to Popey’s comments to Ivanka – Ubuntu, and GNOME specifically, has been heading towards a Mac look for a long time. There are many nods to or direct copies of the OS X UI. I see this as being a GNOME design trend as much as an Ubuntu/Canonical one though.

Amused to find that the Cool-er is sold out at the moment – is this the UUPC effect in action?

By: Marxjohnson

Marxjohnson — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:59:08 +0000

Further to the command line lurve, if you acceidentally type a command that you meant to run as root without sudo in front of it, you can re-run it as root by typing
sudo !!

By: Sorin

Sorin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:50:06 +0000

Last post I promise: It was a horrible episode. I could barely listen to it all the way to the end. Made me wanna scream in pain … oh the agony !!! … the horror !!!

Can’t wait for your next podcast. Keep it up guys.

By: Sorin

Sorin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:46:23 +0000

Oh also can I make a suggestion since this whole rebranding subject is up? .. could we have a campaign to tell people we don’t want any more users switching to Ubuntu ? Something like “Ubuntu 10.04 is now out for Linux users around the world. Windows users please stay away or you run the risk of infection. Apple users are allowed if they get a special pass denouncing Steve Jobs and his wicked ways. Thank You.”

By: Sorin

Sorin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:27:19 +0000

And yeah… thanks for that sarcastic email to whoever wrote it. I was amazed myself by the unparalleled involvement that Canonical has demonstrated towards graphics design and usability. I mean they hired a whole dozen people solely for this. Can you imagine that ? I mean M$ probably has one or two and I bet even Apple doesn’t have more than five. And what are developers to do if they don’t have to think about usability anymore… if they can just ask an “expert” about it. It’s shocking I tell you.

Also real man structure tank (EVE Online joke *wink*)

By: Sorin

Sorin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:14:53 +0000

Well I think having the buttons on the left is brilliant. I know it’s really annoying to get used to it but once you do you realize that most of your activity in a window is concentrated towards the upper left corner anyway. So having the buttons on the right is really a bad idea since you always have to move away from where you concentrate your mouse movements to minimize or close a window.

Disclaimer: I’m not a Mac user and I don’t like Mac OS for it’s lack of functionality.

By: Buttons, Design, Pilates and Z80 Programming | popey.com blog

Buttons, Design, Pilates and Z80 Programming | popey.com blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:03:30 +0000

[...] recommend having a listen to what Ivanka has to say. You can hear the full interview in “Behind The Screen” – Season 3 Episode 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast made by members of the UK LoCo [...]