--- title: Design | Blog description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged *"Design"* --- [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 ### [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) Company Ubuntu tech blog 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 challenges UI/UX designers face when contributing, and how maintainers can solve them. ... --- [Nina Rojc](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ninarojc) 16 June 2026 ### [Template: Streamlining open source design contributions](https://canonical.com/blog/template-streamlining-open-source-design-contributions) Design Article As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source  benefits everyone, from the project maintainers to the end users themselves.   In the 2025 edition of FOSSBackstage conference, we presented our research findings on  why designers don’t get ... --- [Miguel Divo](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mdivo) 22 May 2026 ### [Decoding design: How design and engineering thrive together in open source](https://canonical.com/blog/decoding-design-how-design-and-engineering-thrive-together-in-open-source) Design Article Open source thrives on engineering-driven processes. Fast feedback loops, terminal tools, Git workflows: they’re the lifeblood of how we build software in the open. But for software to truly excel, we need to create user experiences that empower people to use them. I wanted to bring this conversation into the spotlight as part of Canonica ... --- [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026 ### [Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog 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. Like many software engineers, one of my first software development experiences started with creating my own web page. Since that time almost 25 years ago, ... --- [Miguel Divo](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mdivo) 13 February 2026 ### [From inspiration to impact: design students from Regent’s University London explore open design for their dissertation projects](https://canonical.com/blog/from-inspiration-to-impact-design-students-from-regents-university-london-explore-open-design-for-their-dissertation-projects) Design Article Last year, we had the opportunity to speak at Regent’s UX Conference (Regent’s University London’s conference to showcase UX work by staff, students, and alumni), where we engaged with students to make them aware of open design and their ability to contribute design skills to open source projects. The talk sparked great discussion, and we ... --- [Miguel Divo](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mdivo) 19 January 2026 ### [Showcasing open design in action: Loughborough University design students explore open source projects](https://canonical.com/blog/showcasing-open-design-in-action-loughborough-university-design-students-explore-open-source-projects) Design Article Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project briefs. Team 1 focused on non-code contributions, while Team 2’s brief was to create a unified documentation experience, giving them a chance to apply their design skills to real-wo ... --- [Graham Morrison](https://canonical.com/blog/author/morrisong) 18 December 2025 ### [Design and Documentation clinics at FOSDEM Fringe 2026](https://canonical.com/blog/design-and-documentation-clinics-at-fosdem-fringe-2026) Ubuntu Article FOSDEM is one of the biggest and most exciting open source events of the year, held at the Solbosch campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium. Thousands of open source contributors and enthusiasts attend, often with several folks from Canonical among them. The next one is coming quickly, with FOSDEM 2026 being held ... --- [Miguel Divo](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mdivo) 21 November 2025 ### [Open design: the opportunity design students didn’t know they were missing](https://canonical.com/blog/open-design-the-opportunity-design-students-didnt-know-they-were-missing) Design Article What if you could work on real-world projects, shape cutting-edge technology, collaborate with developers across the world, make a meaningful impact with your design skills, and grow your portfolio… all without applying for an internship or waiting for graduation? That’s what we aim to do with open design: an opportunity for universities ... --- [Maximilian Blazek](https://canonical.com/blog/author/maximilian-blazek) 10 November 2025 ### [Generating accessible color palettes for design systems … inspired by APCA!](https://canonical.com/blog/generating-color-palettes-for-design-systems-inspired-by-apca) Ubuntu Article This is the first of two blog posts about how we created the color palette for a new design system at Canonical. In this post I share my journey into perceptually uniform color spaces and perceptual contrast algorithms.  If you’re already familiar with these concepts, skip to this section (or visit the Github repository) to ... --- [Leia Ruffini](https://canonical.com/blog/author/leiaru) 9 September 2025 ### [How we ran a sprint to refresh our design website, Part 2](https://canonical.com/blog/how-we-ran-an-effective-sprint-to-refresh-our-design-website-part-2) Design Article Part 2 of our series on how our team created content for our design website. Get insights, tools, and lessons to help you run your own design sprint. ... --- [Erin Conley](https://canonical.com/blog/author/econley) 10 July 2025 ### [In pursuit of quality: UX for documentation authors](https://canonical.com/blog/in-pursuit-of-quality-ux-for-documentation-authors) Documentation Article Canonical’s Platform Engineering team has been hard at work crafting documentation in Rockcraft and Charmcraft around native support for web app frameworks like Flask and Django. It’s all part of Canonical’s aim to write high quality documentation and continuously improve it over time through design and development processes. One way we i ... --- 1. *Previous page* 2. [1](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md&page=1) 3. [2](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md&page=2) 4. [3](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md&page=3) 5. [4](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md&page=4) 6. [5](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design?format=md&page=5) 7. 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