Design archives
105 posts
From inspiration to impact: design students from Regent’s University London explore open design for their dissertation projects
By Miguel Divo, 13 February 2026
Last year, we had the opportunity to speak at Regent’s UX Conference (Regent’s University London’s conference to showcase UX work by staff, students, and...
Showcasing open design in action: Loughborough University design students explore open source projects
By Miguel Divo, 19 January 2026
Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project...
Open design: the opportunity design students didn’t know they were missing
By Miguel Divo, 21 November 2025
What if you could work on real-world projects, shape cutting-edge technology, collaborate with developers across the world, make a meaningful impact with your...
Web Engineering: Celebrating Our Third Annual Hack Week
By Anthony Dillon, 6 November 2025
The Web Engineering team is thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of our third annual Hack Week! Over the past three years, this initiative has...
How we ran a sprint to refresh our design website, Part 2
By Leia Ruffini, 9 September 2025
Part 2 of our series on how our team created content for our design website. Get insights, tools, and lessons to help you run your own design sprint.
How we ran an effective sprint to refresh our design website, Part 1
By Leia Ruffini, 14 April 2025
Part 1 of how we ran a design sprint to refresh our website. Sharing what worked, what didn’t, and lessons from designing for open source in mind.
An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners
By piperdeck, 20 January 2025
Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my...
Web Engineering: Hack Week 2024
By Anthony Dillon, 8 January 2025
At Canonical, the work of our teams is strongly embedded in the open source principles and philosophy. We believe open source software will become the most...
Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure
By Maximilian Blazek, 6 November 2024
How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.
Visual Testing: GitHub Actions Migration & Test Optimisation
By Julie Muzina, 13 August 2024
What is Visual Testing? Visual testing analyses the visual appearance of a user interface. Snapshots of pages are taken to create a “baseline”, or the current...
Let’s talk open design
By Ana Sereijo, 19 April 2024
Why aren’t there more design contributions in open source? Help us find out!