Design archives
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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!
Web team – hack week 2023
By Anthony Dillon, 25 October 2023
Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an...
Display graphs for WebRTC Statistics API data using ChartJS and React
By lorumic, 18 September 2023
WebRTC is an open-source technology that enables Real-Time Communications (RTC) in a web browser. It provides software developers with a set of application...
Vanilla 4.0 release
By Bartek Szopka, 18 July 2023
Last week we released a new major version of the Vanilla framework. Vanilla 4.0 introduces the elements of the new style used for a current rebranding of...
Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 23 September 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are...
Design and Web team summary – 9 September 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 23 September 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are...
Design and Web team summary – 26 August 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 30 August 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are...
Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 30 August 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are...
Design and Web team summary – 15 July 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 27 July 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are...
Design and Web team summary – 1 July 2022
By Anthony Dillon, 12 July 2022
The Web and design team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...