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 — 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 ubuntu.com responsive: final thoughts

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

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

Making ubuntu.com responsive: testing on multiple devices (15)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

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

Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)

by Anthony Dillon on 17 June 2014

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

Making ubuntu.com responsive: ensuring performance (13)

by Anthony Dillon on 13 June 2014

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

Making ubuntu.com responsive: our Sass architecture (12)

by Anthony Dillon on 12 June 2014

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

Making ubuntu.com 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 ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception....

Malta Sprint

by Canonical on 10 June 2014

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show...

Cueing up users

by Canonical on 9 June 2014

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 6 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 30 May 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation...