Blog posts tagged "Vanilla"

Improving our web page creation workflow: how structured content is slashing design and development time

Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need...

Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure

How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.

Vanilla 4.0 release

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...

How we implemented an interactive Live Demo Box

The Vanilla squad recently spent a two week sprint prototyping an interactive live demo box. We were tasked with coming up with a proof of concept, to enable...

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

We’ve just released Vanilla v3.0 – a new major update to our CSS framework. It includes a few significant updates and improvements around spacing variables,...

Taming unruly logo sections

Making logo sections can be tricky. Logos come in all shapes and sizes, and without proper care, it is easy to end up with a poorly balanced layout. The...

Improving the code experience in Vanilla

For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key...

Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework

The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an...

Automating our Vanilla releases with GitHub actions

The Vanilla framework has a history of being released very infrequently. Sometimes it has been months between releases, which made the upgrade process often...

The lifecycle of a component

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal...

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad...

Design and Web team summary – 25 June 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad...

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

We have just released Vanilla Framework 2.0, Canonical’s SCSS styling framework, and – despite our best efforts to minimise the impact – the new features come...

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to bring you the next release of Vanilla framework: version 2.0, our most stable release to date. Since our last...

Design and Web team summary – 10 June 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that...

Web and Design team summary – 7 May 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that...

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