Web engineering and design team

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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.

The very best edge of all

by Mark Shuttleworth on 8 March 2014

The bottom edge is the most natural one to use, and Ubuntu has given it to developers to make the most of. Some design guidance establishes a framework for...

Thanks for all your submissions!

by Canonical on 6 March 2014

The submissions process for Ubuntu 14.04 is now closed. If you’d like to look at the images head over to the Flickr Group. From here on a group of dedicated...

Loving the bottom edge

by Canonical on 6 March 2014

The bottom edge is the most pleasurable edge to use. Grab a phone, any phone, and slide your thumb up over the bottom edge, then back. Go on, do it a few...

Latest from the web team — February 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 27 February 2014

Time flies! February is mostly behind us now and hopefully spring won’t take too long to show up in London. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu...

Ubuntu Resources — beta!

by Inayaili de León Persson on 27 February 2014

Today we’ve released a new version of Ubuntu Resources with some new functionality and design improvements, and we’ve now moved from alpha to beta! Feedback...

App Design Clinic #8

by Canonical on 12 February 2014

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more...

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

by Canonical on 10 February 2014

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client...

Latest from the web team — January 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 30 January 2014

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu...

App Design Clinic #7

by Canonical on 29 January 2014

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and...

Sheets transition

by Canonical on 13 January 2014

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a...

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

by Inayaili de León Persson on 9 January 2014

We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate...

New year links

by Canonical on 6 January 2014

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential...