Ubuntu Is Doing A UI Makeover To Their Installer / Setup Process

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Is Doing A UI Makeover To Their Installer / Setup Process

Canonical's design team has been working on redoing the user-interface to the Ubiquity installer that also converges with the setup wizard for Ubuntu Phones...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Ubiquity-New-UI

[sabun]

I look forward to this. With how often I install Ubuntu on computers, making the installer UI easier whilst also giving it a little eye-candy is most welcome

[mark45]

The problem with any designers is that most of them favor design over usability which is a recipe for fucking things up. Gnome's been doing this and then reverting back because the masses "who don't understand them" demanded. Windows 10 scaled back on the metro on the standard PC because of the same issue - they let designers do the decisions and then users told them they're morons because they fucked up usability in favor of fashion.

Whatever Canonical does - I hope they put a guy in charge who cares more about usability and can/will override anything the designers invent.

As a dev I noticed that users appreciate design changes only in the short term, but in the mid and long term they care a lot more about usability than design.

[mao_dze_dun]

I wish they'd do a makeover of Unity...

[Ericg]

The problem with any designers is that most of them favor design over usability which is a recipe for fucking things up. Gnome's been doing this and then reverting back because the masses "who don't understand them" demanded. Windows 10 scaled back on the metro on the standard PC because of the same issue - they let designers do the decisions and then users told them they're morons because they fucked up usability in favor of fashion.

Whatever Canonical does - I hope they put a guy in charge who cares more about usability and can/will override anything the designers invent.

As a dev I noticed that users appreciate design changes only in the short term, but in the mid and long term they care a lot more about usability than design.

It, like most other things, requires a combination of approaches, and moderation go those approaches. Let the designer take it to the extreme and it will be over-engineered. Let the developer have full control and every single control knob possible will be exposed and it will have the UI of a pre-CSS webpage.

[Awesomeness]

I wish they'd do a makeover of Unity...

Don't use it if you don't like it.

[lunarcloud]

Don't use it if you don't like it.

Yea, I like Ubuntu, but hate Unity - so I use Kubuntu. Wily Werewolf is a beautiful release for the Kubuntu side.

[profoundWHALE]

I wish they'd do a makeover of Unity...

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They are: Unity 8

[mao_dze_dun]

Don't use it if you don't like it.

But I like it overall, that's the thing. It feels the most polished in general (along Pantheon, I guess) but the Unity bar is really idiotic and Cannonical's persistence in not listening to their customers is absolutely staggering. I know they wish they were Microsoft or Google, but since they're just a blimp on the OS map I'd think they'd be a bit more open to their userbase.

[nils_]

But I like it overall, that's the thing. It feels the most polished in general (along Pantheon, I guess) but the Unity bar is really idiotic and Cannonical's persistence in not listening to their customers is absolutely staggering. I know they wish they were Microsoft or Google, but since they're just a blimp on the OS map I'd think they'd be a bit more open to their userbase.

Even Microsoft pedaled back on the Start Menu.