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.

Latest from the web team — April 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 24 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out and it’s great! The period after release tends to be slightly less hectic than the lead up to it, but that doesn’t mean that the web...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: lessons learned (5)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 2 April 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. At this point in time, once the pilot projects were either completed or underway, we had...

#10 Ubuntu is built on IAAS for IAAS users

by Mark Shuttleworth on 31 March 2014

Ubuntu is famous for “making things easy”. That’s just as important on the cloud as it is in consumer devices, and we bring the same user-centric design to...

Latest from the web team — March 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 27 March 2014

Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last...

Ubuntu Resources — beta 2!

by Inayaili de León Persson on 27 March 2014

A new version of the Ubuntu Resources site is now live, with many tweaks and layout improvements targeted mainly at visitors using medium-sized screens, such...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making the rules a reality (3)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 March 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The rules document we drafted proved a useful and good guide for those few development days,...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: pilot projects (4)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 March 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Making www.ubuntu.com responsive has been an ongoing goal of ours for a while, and we’ve been...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: setting the rules (2)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 17 March 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The front end framework that powers www.ubuntu.com represents the visual evolution of the site...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: intro (1)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 17 March 2014

We’ve known for a while it was time to convert our main site, www.ubuntu.com, into a responsive site, and we’re now nearing the end of the project! The main...

MWC 2014 – A strong design coherence in everything we do

by Tom Macfarlane on 13 March 2014

Last month at Mobile World Congress Ubuntu’s presence was stronger than ever. Our third year at MWC and we made some significant design changes to our stand....

New Apps header

by Canonical on 13 March 2014

The new apps header features max. 4 slots that can be arranged and combined in order to fulfil user needs in every screen. Header’s values We want to provide...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS wallpaper

by Canonical on 10 March 2014

Hey For the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on the new Ubuntu Wallpaper. It is never easy trust me. The most difficult part was to work out the...