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.
Ubuntu
12.10 wallpaper selection finalised
by Canonical on 5 September 2012
Here they are! Our lovely wallpapers for the 12.10 release of Ubuntu. Fine plumage I think you’ll agree! As you’ll have seen elsewhere on the web these landed...
Ubuntu
12.10 shortlist so far
by Canonical on 28 August 2012
12.10 shortlist, a gallery on Flickr. Today the group closed on submissions for the 12.10 wallpaper selection. The team of us involved are still working to...
Ubuntu
Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript
by Anthony Dillon on 24 August 2012
I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This...
Ubuntu
Calum and Mika’s cakes.
by Canonical on 23 August 2012
We are blogging a lot of cakes, so to economise on space, I’ve paired Mika and I’s latest baking attempts. Last week was my turn to bake a cake. I was...
Ubuntu
New focus for wallpaper submissions
by Canonical on 21 August 2012
Quantal is well on the way to being the great release we’ve come to expect from Ubuntu so it’s time to add to that sheen with a set of quality wallpapers from...
Ubuntu
Gone to the island
by Canonical on 10 August 2012
The release schedule of Ubuntu is tied to a 6 month cycle, also called cadence. Similarly, a lot of our work and planning falls onto our diaries like country...
Cloud and server
Ubuntu Online Tour
by Anthony Dillon on 9 August 2012
We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out...
Ubuntu
Introducing web apps
by Canonical on 23 July 2012
As you might have heard from the blogosphere, we are going to start to ship our take on web apps. Let me take the opportunity to explain to you some of the...
Ubuntu
Design Is a Job
by Inayaili de León Persson on 20 July 2012
In the past few weeks I’ve been trying to catch up with all the reading that I haven’t been doing in the past few months. One of the books in my to-read pile...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Developer Summit: Design Theatre
by Canonical on 7 May 2012
Normally the Ubuntu/Canonical Design Team are busy working on our own projects, but it makes a really good change to work on other Free Software design...
Ubuntu
Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch
by Canonical on 19 April 2012
In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of...