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Converting projects between Git and Bazaar
By Robin Winslow, 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...
Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages
By Robin Winslow, 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...
Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)
By Anthony Dillon, 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, 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, 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...
Cloud sprint: what I’ve learned about testing and code reviews
By Anthony Dillon, 30 October 2013
I was recently asked to attend a cloud sprint in San Francisco as a front-end developer for the new Juju GUI product. I had the pleasure of finally meeting...
Latest from the web team — October 2013
By Inayaili de León Persson, 24 October 2013
Release month is always a busy one for the web team, and this time was no exception with the Ubuntu 13.10 release last week. In the last few weeks we’ve...
Ubuntu Edge: Design process
By Canonical, 26 July 2013
Right… so where should we start? First post. Hello, my name is Chee, and I am an industrial designer. In this post I will share some materials, stories and...
App patterns explained : Layout
By Canonical, 14 February 2013
We want everyone to design and build beautiful and usable apps, and the App Design Guides help us do just that! So to kick things off, if you’re thinking...
Announcing the App Design Guides
By Canonical, 13 February 2013
We’re very excited to have just released the first version of the App Design Guides, the go-to destination to design and build beautiful and usable apps for...
Prototyping Navigation with JavaScript
By Anthony Dillon, 24 August 2012
I wondered if I could make an easily updateable, prototype site in order to test a number of different IA’s using an XML file to represent the sitemap. This...
Ubuntu Online Tour
By Anthony Dillon, 9 August 2012
We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out...