Tobias Bernard – Purism

Design 2022 in Retrospect

Tobias Bernard — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:17:52 +0000

As you probably know, software work at Purism follows upstream-first principles. This means we contribute to projects directly to make them better for everyone rather than just applying custom changes for ourselves downstream. From a user interface and design perspective this mostly means working on GNOME and various adjacent projects, including core and third party […]

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Libadwaita in the Wild

Tobias Bernard — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:31:08 +0000

It’s hard to believe, but Libadwaita is not even one year old, having first been released on December 31, 2021. With that in mind it’s pretty remarkable how widely adopted it is today. Between the majority of GNOME core and Circle apps having already been ported, the many new third party apps, and even all […]

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Purism at Berlin Mini GUADEC

Tobias Bernard — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:26:32 +0000

GUADEC is the main yearly GNOME conference, where developers, designers, and other community members gather in one place to watch talks, hack on new features, and plan for the future. Given Purism’s close involvement with GNOME development we used to attend GUADEC as a team before COVID, but of course in the past two years […]

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How to be Upstream-First

Tobias Bernard — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:08:33 +0000

One of the things I’m most proud of about my work on the Librem 5 team is the productive collaborations we have with upstream free software projects, and the contributions to the broader ecosystem we’ve been able to make as a result. Over the past four years the Librem 5 software team has worked on […]

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Designing an Icon for Your App

Tobias Bernard — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:08:05 +0000

Originally published on 30 December 2019 on Tobias Bernard’s GNOME Blog. You’ve designed your app’s interface, and found the perfect name for it. But of course a great app also needs a great icon before you can release it to the world. After the name, the app icon is the most important part of an […]

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Librem 5 App Design Tutorial — Part III

Tobias Bernard — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:44:45 +0000

Naming your app So you finally started working on the awesome idea you had for a GNOME app, designed a great interface for it and want to start building it. You open Gitlab in order to create a new repository… and oh no!, it wants a name. Existential dread sets in. Naming things is hard, […]

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Librem 5 App Design Tutorial – Part II

Tobias Bernard — Mon, 13 May 2019 15:50:19 +0000

Hello and welcome to the second of my series of blog posts on how to design your own, brand new app for the Librem 5. In my last post we went over the philosophy and process, goals and relevant art of building a read-it-later app; today we’ll be covering the basics of navigation, layout, and […]

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Librem 5 App Design Tutorial – Part I

Tobias Bernard — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:56:30 +0000

Are you excited about the Librem 5 and GNOME going mobile, and do you want to start building our own, brand new app for it? Well, the first thing you need is, of course, to design the new app – this can be a bit challenging on its own, especially if you’re starting out with […]

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