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Designing product page templates for ubuntu.com
By Francesca Granato, 10 October 2017
During our user testing sessions on ubuntu.com, we often receive feedback from users about content on the site (“I can’t find this”, “I’d like more of that”...
Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process
By Robin Winslow, 8 September 2017
I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists...
Vanilla Framework has a new website
By Inayaili de León Persson, 14 August 2017
We’re happy to announce the long overdue Vanilla Framework website, where you can find all the relevant links and resources needed to start using Vanilla. ...
Simplifying local development: The ./run executable
By Robin Winslow, 5 July 2017
Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby,...
Designing build.snapcraft.io
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 3 July 2017
Many open-source software developers use GitHub. Let’s make it as easy as possible for them to build and release their code automatically.
Our open source websites
By Robin Winslow, 31 May 2017
Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind...
Yakkety Yak
By Tom Macfarlane, 7 November 2016
The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development...
Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper
By Grazina Borosko, 20 October 2016
The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases...
Ubuntu Core
By Tom Macfarlane, 12 October 2016
Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all...
Convergent terminal
By Canonical, 15 August 2016
We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work...
Web team hack day
By Anthony Dillon, 8 August 2016
Last week the developers in the web team swapped the office for the lobby of the hotel across the street. The day was geared up to allow us to leave our daily...
Refreshed scrollbars!
By Andrea Bernabei, 8 August 2016
You may have noticed that the scrollbars available on Ubuntu Touch and the Unity8 environment have recently received a huge overhaul in both visual appearance...