Web engineering and design team

Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team

The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Helsinki SDK sprint

by Femma on 10 December 2015

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The...

November’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 December 2015

Here are the best links shared by the design team in November: Interview with Darrin Henein Rapid Prototyping with Gulp, Framer.js and Sketch: Part One...

An expanded device mono icon set

by Matthieu James on 26 November 2015

We will soon push an update of the Suru icon theme that includes more device icons in order to support the Ubuntu convergence story. Because the existing icon...

Vanilla: theme wrapping

by Graham Bancroft on 23 November 2015

If you’ve been following our Vanilla framework series of blog posts you’ll be aware of why we needed this new framework and have a little insight into how...

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

by Canonical on 20 November 2015

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an...

Using Vanilla with Jekyll

by Anthony Dillon on 19 November 2015

We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all...

Jujucharms.com homepage redesign

by Elvi on 16 November 2015

After many hours of research, testing and never-ending questions about structure, design, aesthetics and function, we’re very happy to announce that...

October’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 16 November 2015

Here are the best links shared by the design team in October: Writing to Think How We Fixed Our Icon Problem Writing Developer Job Postings The Stages of Fear...

Ubuntu 15.10 is here!

by Inayaili de León Persson on 22 October 2015

And ubuntu.com has a brand new homepage too! The new homepage gives a better overview and links to all Ubuntu products. We also wanted to give visitors easy...

Community interview – Dan Chapman

by James Mulholland on 14 October 2015

We sat down with Dekko star Dan Chapman to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu and his excitement for the release of the Pocket Desktop. Dan...

Keynotes from my first PyCon – friendly and inspiring

by Robin Winslow on 7 October 2015

Last weekend I went to my first Pycon, my second conference in a fortnight. The conference runs from Friday to Monday, with 3 days of talks followed by one...

Python learnings from PyCon

by Robin Winslow on 7 October 2015

The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract. Here I’m going to talk about the other talks I...