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.

Converting projects between Git and Bazaar

by Robin Winslow on 27 January 2015

Here in the design team we use both Bazaar and Git to keep track our projects’ hostory. We quite often end up coverting our projects from Bazaar to Git or...

Community interview: Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen

by Canonical on 13 November 2014

Victor and Andrew are two inspiring Community developers that have devoted their spare time to contribute to the Ubuntu Touch Music App team. I sat down with...

Community interview: Riccardo Padovani and Filippo Scognamiglio

by Canonical on 4 November 2014

We sat down with some of Ubuntu’s unsung Community heroes at the recent Devices Sprint in Washington D.C. Riccardo and Filippo are two young and passionate...

Washington Devices Sprint

by Canonical on 31 October 2014

Introducing myself as the new and only content designer in the Design Team, I dived head first into the world of developers, designers and Ubuntu Community...

Designing machine view

by Luca Paulina on 13 October 2014

A few weeks ago we launched ‘Machine view’ for Juju, a feature designed to allow users to easily visualise and manage the machines running in their cloud...

Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

by Canonical on 11 September 2014

Brighton is not just a lovely seaside town, mostly known for being overcrowded in Summer by Londoners in search for a bit of escapism, but also the home of a...

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 ubuntu.com 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 ubuntu.com 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...