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Lyubomir Popov
23 June 2025

Revolutionizing Web Page Creation: How Structured Content is Slashing Design and Development Time

Article Ubuntu

Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for constant design involvement in the day-to-day creation of web pages. Our strategy for achieving this is based on a smarter, more structured approach to content....

Lyubomir Popov
23 June 2025

Leia Ruffini
14 April 2025

How we ran an effective sprint to refresh our website, Part 1

Article Design

Part 1 of how we ran a design sprint to refresh our website. Sharing what worked, what didn’t, and lessons from designing for open source in mind.

Leia Ruffini
14 April 2025

Lyubomir Popov
17 February 2025

A deep dive into our grid system and typography for the A4 format

Article Ubuntu

We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and typography. The goal? A reliable, accessible modular system that communicates with clarity, purpose and precision across mediums — qualities that tie directly back to our...

Lyubomir Popov
17 February 2025

piperdeck
20 January 2025

An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners

Article Design

Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the forum threads filled with advice

piperdeck
20 January 2025

Maximilian Blazek
6 November 2024

Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure

Article Design

How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.

Maximilian Blazek
6 November 2024

Julie Muzina
13 August 2024

Visual Testing: GitHub Actions Migration & Test Optimisation

Article Design

What is Visual Testing? Visual testing analyses the visual appearance of a user interface. Snapshots of pages are taken to create a “baseline”, or the current expectation of how each page should appear. Proposed changes are then compared against the baseline. Any snapshots that deviate from the baseline are flagged for...

Julie Muzina
13 August 2024

Ana Sereijo
19 April 2024

Let’s talk open design

Article Design

Why aren’t there more design contributions in open source? Help us find out!

Ana Sereijo
19 April 2024

Igor Ljubuncic
24 January 2024

Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing

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In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what happens when you go from a regular car to a supercar or a hypercar – the challenges and problems you encounter at 100 km/h are vastly

Igor Ljubuncic
24 January 2024

Anthony Dillon
25 October 2023

Web team – hack week 2023

Article Design

Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach and so almost everything we do and work on can be found publicly on the Canonical Github org. It is not enough to simply open our

Anthony Dillon
25 October 2023

Bartek Szopka
18 July 2023

Vanilla 4.0 release

Article Design

Last week we released a new major version of the Vanilla framework. Vanilla 4.0 introduces the elements of the new style used for a current rebranding of Canonical’s brochure websites, including typography changes of headings utilising new variable Ubuntu font, wider grid width, removed rounded corners, some updated...

Bartek Szopka
18 July 2023

Goulin Khoge
14 October 2022

Introducing a VSCode extension for Vanilla CSS Framework

Article Ubuntu

The Vanilla CSS Framework is a utility class-based and customizable SASS library that is the go-to when it comes to styling websites and dashboards across the majority of projects at Canonical. Knowing all the class utilities could be tricky. That’s why we make sure that our documentation is up-to-date and accessible as...

Goulin Khoge
14 October 2022

toto
11 October 2022

Design and Web team summary – 23 September 2022

Article Ubuntu

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. During this iteration, the team met in London for a team workshop. It was the first time a lot

toto
11 October 2022

toto
4 October 2022

3 step guide to start Hacktoberfest

Article Ubuntu

Last week, the web and design team organised an internal Hacktoberfest. Our goal was simple: contribute to Open Source projects, understand what makes a great contribution experience, and how we could get inspired for our own projects. Here are 3-step guides from our experience during this Hacktoberfest. 1. What should...

toto
4 October 2022

Anthony Dillon
23 September 2022

Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022

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The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com...

Anthony Dillon
23 September 2022

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