--- title: January’s reading list description: 'Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of the year: The Website Obesity Crisis Cryptaris Mission Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern Content & Display Patterns BrandColors Towards better meetings This tool connects pencil stubs together Build your own planet Solar System: 5 Things To Know […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/januarys-reading-list?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") 1 February 2016 # January’s reading list [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of the year: 1. [The Website Obesity Crisis](https://vimeo.com/147806338) 2. [Cryptaris Mission](http://www.cryptarismission.com/) 3. [Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern](http://thewebahead.net/106) 4. [Content & Display Patterns](http://danielmall.com/articles/content-display-patterns/) 5. [BrandColors](http://brandcolors.net/) 6. [Towards better meetings](https://blog.intercom.io/towards-better-meetings/) 7. [This tool connects pencil stubs together](http://boingboing.net/2016/01/18/this-tool-connects-pencil-stub.html) 8. [Build your own planet](http://oskarstalberg.com/game/planet/planet.html) 9. [Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week](http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/137649968189/solar-system-5-things-to-know-this-week?linkId=20506920) 10. [Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/20/463087037/hints-of-a-hidden-distant-planet-in-our-solar-system) 11. [Product Principles: Read Receipts](https://blog.intercom.io/product-principles-read-receipts/) 12. [One day’s observations from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite](https://glittering.blue/) 13. [London UX Bookclub](http://www.meetup.com/uxbcldn/events/228346004/?gj=co2&rv=co2) 14. [Snowboarding with the NYPD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv7G7WpOoU&feature=youtu.be) 15. [BoxBox flexible layout demo](https://keminglabs.com/boxbox/screencasts/#4-new-layout) Thank you to [Alejandra](http://design.canonical.com/author/alejandra-obregon), [Ant](http://design.canonical.com/author/ya-bo-ng), [Jamie](http://design.canonical.com/author/jamiedawsonyoung), [Joe](http://design.canonical.com/author/faooful), [Karl](http://design.canonical.com/author/deadlight), [Lívia](http://design.canonical.com/author/liviadtpereira), [Olga](http://design.canonical.com/author/olga-kemmet), [Peter](http://design.canonical.com/author/peter-mahnke), [Robin](http://design.canonical.com/author/nottrobin) and [Tom](http://design.canonical.com/author/2-tom) 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