--- title: April’s reading list description: '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 2017: Design, Code & Create Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Simple Icons On conference proposal rejections Implementing system f […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/aprils-reading-list-2?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Inayaili de León Persson](https://canonical.com/blog/author/inayaili-de-leon-persson "More about Inayaili de León Persson") 2 May 2017 # April’s reading list [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017: 1. [Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’](http://getcoleman.com/) 2. [Mockuuups Studio & Sketch](https://mockuuups.studio/sketch) 3. [Reasons to conference 2017: Design, Code & Create](https://reasons.to/2017/brighton) 4. [Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation](https://blog.marvelapp.com/hamburger-menu-alternatives-mobile-navigation/) 5. [Everyone is a designer. Get over it.](https://library.gv.com/everyone-is-a-designer-get-over-it-501cc9a2f434) 6. [Simple Icons](https://simpleicons.org/) 7. [On conference proposal rejections](https://medium.com/@limedaring/on-conference-proposal-rejections-205f7fead68) 8. [Implementing system fonts on Booking.com—A lesson learned.](https://booking.design/implementing-system-fonts-on-booking-com-a-lesson-learned-bdc984df627f) 9. [Painting with Code](http://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/) Thank you to [Ant](https://design.canonical.com/author/ya-bo-ng), [Barry](https://design.canonical.com/author/barry-mcgee), [Carla](https://design.canonical.com/author/carlaberkers), [Richard](https://design.canonical.com/author/ricgard) and me for the links this month. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)](https://canonical.com/blog/challenges-designers-face-in-open-source-and-how-to-fix-them) Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core... [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 [### Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in web development.... [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026 [### Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing](https://canonical.com/blog/canonicals-recipe-for-high-performance-computing) 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... [Igor Ljubuncic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/igorljubuncic) 24 January 2024 [### Web team – hack week 2023](https://canonical.com/blog/web-team-hack-week-2023) 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... [Anthony Dillon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ya-bo-ng) 25 October 2023