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Ubuntu’s Design Team: Make It Look Good, Run Better

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Serdar Yegulalp
Oct 15, 2009

“The design team’s a group of fourteen people who comprise a mix
of different disciplines: visual / graphics designers, interaction
designers, and technical people. “The majority of us come from
consultancies and agencies,” Ivanka explained. “I was at a user
experience consultancy called Flow Interactive, and I used to be a
programmer, so I came into user-centered design. If I was thinking
about what people were doing and how, I could help them accomplish
that.”

“I was curious what kind of working relationship the design
group had established with GNOME so far. (I focused on GNOME for
now since the stock Ubuntu installation uses it, and therefore
that’s what most people have direct exposure to.)”


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