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.

Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 11 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception....

Malta Sprint

by Canonical on 10 June 2014

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show...

Cueing up users

by Canonical on 9 June 2014

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 6 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 30 May 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making our grid responsive (8)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 29 May 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. A big part of converting our existing fixed-width desktop site to be responsive was to make...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: approach to content (7)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 23 May 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. If you’re transitioning a fixed-width website into a responsive one with several time and...

Latest from the web team — May 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 22 May 2014

We’re fast approaching the summer, and the first few sunny days have already arrived in London. The web team cannot slow its pace though… In the last few...

Sticky notes and a mobile first approach

by Carla Berkers on 20 May 2014

As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 19 May 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss...

The browser is dead. Long live the browser!

by Canonical on 15 May 2014

With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even...

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…

by Alejandra Obregon on 9 May 2014

Last week a few of us flew to Las Vegas for a Juju sprint at the world-famous Flamingo casino (where Hunter S. Thompson stayed in Fear and Loathing). It was...