Web engineering and design team

Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team

The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the bounderies of the web.

Competition winner – Timer App

by Canonical on 9 August 2016

Back in June we hosted a competition that asked developers to use the AdaptivePageLayout component from the UI toolkit to create an app that converges across...

Web team hack day

by Anthony Dillon on 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 on 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...

App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns

by Canonical on 4 August 2016

Last week we released phase 1 of the new App Design Guides, which included Get started and Building blocks. Now we have just released phase 2: Patterns. This...

The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

by Stephanie on 2 August 2016

The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and...

July’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 August 2016

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of July: 9 tips to help you rock your first (or next) conference presentation Notes from...

Developing for Vanilla v1

by Barry McGee on 29 July 2016

As Inayaili recently blogged, we are now working towards a goal of releasing Version one (v1) of Vanilla for early September. Maturity Vanilla was created...

New starter Raul (UX designer) – “I want to challenge myself to do the most difficult things”

by Canonical on 26 July 2016

Meet the newest member of the design team, UX designer Raul Alvarez, who will be working on the Ubuntu convergence story. Raul will be bringing new ideas to...

See what our interns got up to and what they thought of our apps

by Femma on 22 July 2016

Last week the design team had two interns undertaking their work experience at the London office. Our first student is studying computer science for her GCSEs...

Introducing the new Juju store

by Elvi on 19 July 2016

Over the past few months, the Juju team has been working on a whole redesign of the Juju store homepage and we’re very happy to announce that it is now live!...

See our designs on Behance and Dribbble

by Canonical on 8 July 2016

You can now follow us on Dribbble and Behance for design inspiration. See things like: the Ubuntu #reinvent digital campaign, Juju embeddable card and Suru...

Web engineering and design team

Ubuntu

Competition winner – Timer App

Ubuntu

Web team hack day

Ubuntu

Refreshed scrollbars!

Ubuntu

App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns

Desktop

The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

Ubuntu

July’s reading list

Phone and tablet

Developing for Vanilla v1

Ubuntu

New starter Raul (UX designer) – “I want to challenge myself to do the most difficult things”

Ubuntu

See what our interns got up to and what they thought of our apps

Ubuntu

Introducing the new Juju store

Ubuntu

See our designs on Behance and Dribbble