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Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Will Grant
15 April 2021

Transcribing user interviews with Amazon Transcribe

Design Article

A quick ‘how to’ on using Amazon’s Transcribe service to turn user interview recordings into text-transcripts. ...


Anthony Dillon
12 April 2021

Design and Web team summary – 12 April 2021

Design Article

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. This iteration has seen many of the team out of the office as schools are out in the UK. This has not limited ...


Anthony Dillon
29 March 2021

Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2021

Design Article

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


toto
25 March 2021

Meet my co-worker, webbot

Ubuntu Article

Like every team, the web team has a set of features that are super useful to automate. We use Hubot, a technology owned by GitHub to write very simple bot scripts that we can interact with. The way we use the bot is mostly via Mattermost. We called it: webbot. In this article I would ...


Anthony Dillon
17 March 2021

Design and Web team summary – 17 March 2021

Design Article

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Clément, I live in Toulouse, France. I joined Canonical four months ago and I’m working as a ...


Anthony Dillon
16 March 2021

CSS Animations

Design Article

In our team, we run “masterclasses” every few weeks, to share knowledge throughout the team. Similar to Robin’s post on regex basics, here’s the contents of the masterclass on “CSS animations” that I just presented to the team. The fundamentals A simple `transform` example: .btn:hover { transform: translateY(-40px);} This just jumps from ...


Anthony Dillon
1 March 2021

Design and Web team summary – 01 March 2021

Design Design

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


Anthony Dillon
19 February 2021

Supporting “I don’t care about cookies”

Design Article

It all started one day when my boss turned to me and said, the legal team have said we need to ask a person before our websites can start using non-essential cookies. So we started the cookie-policy project which is written in vanilla JavaScript with accompanying styling and the back-end implemented via Google Tag Manager. ...


Robin Winslow
18 February 2021

Regex basics

Design Design

An overview of regex and how to use it, from a few different angles. Including appropriate warnings like ‘avoid regex’. ...


Scott Mason Nash
16 February 2021

Improving the code experience in Vanilla

Design Article

For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key goal is code clarity – code is not particularly resistant to errors: a missing character (or in some languages, a space or tab) can ...


Anthony Dillon
15 February 2021

Design and Web team summary – 15 February 2021

Design Article

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Ubuntu Core 20 releas ...


Anthony Dillon
8 February 2021

Design and Web team summary – 8 February 2021

Design Design

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  CVE table updates We ...