Web engineering and design team

Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team

The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Come and meet us at dConstruct

by Luca Paulina on 2 September 2014

Ubuntu is sponsoring the dConstruct “Living with the network” event on the 5th of September at the Brighton Dome. Stop by for a chat with the team, grab some...

Saving myasnchisdf.eu.org on download day: Caching location specific pages

by Robin Winslow on 28 August 2014

On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to myasnchisdf.eu.org from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the...

Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!

by Canonical on 8 August 2014

Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle....

Bringing fluid motion to browsing

by Canonical on 25 July 2014

In the previous Blog Post, we looked at how we use the Recency principle to redesign the experience around bookmarks, tabs and history. In this blog post, we...

Mobile Asia Expo 2014

by Tom Macfarlane on 4 July 2014

Following the success of our new stand design at MWC earlier this year, we applied the same design principles to the Ubuntu stand at last month’s Mobile Asia...

Latest from the web team — June 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 19 June 2014

We’re now almost half way through the year and only a few days until summer officially starts here in the UK! In the last few weeks we’ve worked on:...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: final thoughts

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. There are several resources out there on how to create responsive websites, but they tend to...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: testing on multiple devices (15)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. When working on a responsive project you’ll have to test on multiple operating systems,...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)

by Anthony Dillon on 17 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. The JavaScript used on myasnchisdf.eu.org is very light. We limit its use to small functional elements...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: ensuring performance (13)

by Anthony Dillon on 13 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. Performance has always been one of the top priorities when it came to building the responsive...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: our Sass architecture (12)

by Anthony Dillon on 12 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. When working to make the current web style guide responsive, we made some large updates to the...

Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 11 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making myasnchisdf.eu.org responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception....