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Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the amazing Harry Roberts. It was a whirlwind two days where we learned a lot about networking, browsers, font loading and more. We also spent ...


Peter Mahnke
30 September 2019

Design and Web team summary –27 September 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  The first week was spent at an Engineering Sprint in Paris France. The second week was back home.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of ...


Anthony Dillon
3 September 2019

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Build and release dqlite.io The dqlite.io site has been built and deployed. ...


Robin Winslow
19 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

Ubuntu Article

This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in Toronto 2 weeks ago. Priorities have moved around a bit since before the cycle, and we made a good start on the new priorities for the next 3 months.  ...


Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

Ubuntu Article

This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to Toronto for our mid-cycle roadmap sprint.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that ...


Anthony Dillon
8 July 2019

Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical.  Here are a few highlights of completed work.  We also moved several ...


Karl Williams
20 June 2019

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

Cloud and server Article

We have just released Vanilla Framework 2.0, Canonical’s SCSS styling framework, and – despite our best efforts to minimise the impact – the new features come with changes that will not be automatically backwards compatible with sites built using previous versions of the framework. To make the transition to v2.0 easier, we have compiled a ...


Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

Cloud and server Article

Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to bring you the next release of Vanilla framework: version 2.0, our most stable release to date. Since our last significant release, v1.8.0 back in July last year, we’ve been working hard to bring you new features, improve the framework and make it the most stable version ...


Peter Mahnke
19 May 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 May 2019

Ubuntu Design

It was another busy iteration for the web and design team, trying to get a lot of work wrapped up before we head off to Lyon, France for our 19.10 Roadmap cycle kick-off. ...


Juan Real
4 April 2019

Remote collaborative design

People and culture Article

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working in the technology industry 15 years ago, is how common and accessible working from home has become. There are many advances that contributed to its adoption, but surely how we evolved ...


Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

Cloud and server Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers This iteration we designed and built four takeovers for our home pages including: The German version of compliance webinar The German version of AI/ML webinar A ...


Anthony Dillon
20 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 20 February 2019

Cloud and server Design

Snapcraft squad Report a Snap Last year, a snap was found in the Snap Store using computing resources for bitcoin mining without user consent. This software was retired from the Store after further investigation and highlighted the need for snapcraft.io users to report potential snaps violating trademark, copyright or terms and conditions ...