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.
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Our open source websites
by Robin Winslow on 31 May 2017
Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind...
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April’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 2 May 2017
Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017: Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’ Mockuuups Studio & Sketch Reasons to conference...
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Designing in the open
by Anthony Dillon on 25 April 2017
Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories,...
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What we learned at our first official GV design sprint
by Inayaili de León Persson on 4 April 2017
Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and...
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March’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 3 April 2017
Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In...
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February’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 March 2017
Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017: Write Good linter for Atom Land Lines – Chrome Experiments Better Web Typography for a...
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January’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 February 2017
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern...
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December’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 January 2017
We hope everyone has had a great start to the year and fun holiday season. Here are the best links shared by the design team during the last month of 2016:...
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November’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 December 2016
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of November: BARBICAN | Urban Poetry The Future of Web Education A new algorithm for...
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Yakkety Yak
by Tom Macfarlane on 7 November 2016
The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development...
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October’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 November 2016
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New...
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Working to make Juju more accessible
by Joseph Williams on 20 October 2016
In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the...