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.

Ubuntu Edge: Design process

by Canonical on 26 July 2013

Right… so where should we start? First post. Hello, my name is Chee, and I am an industrial designer. In this post I will share some materials, stories and...

Shorts visual exploration

by Canonical on 18 July 2013

Hey After all the work we have done on the Rituals app designs it was time to start exploring other core apps. I thought it would be good to share with you...

See your photos and illustrations in Ubuntu 13.10

by Canonical on 12 July 2013

Each cycle we get together as a community to select some fine default wallpapers for the new release of Ubuntu. Your pictures and illustrations could be in the 13.10!

Unlocking the phone

by Canonical on 2 July 2013

Edges are special to us. We use them for finding apps, tools and system services, so using the edges will be second nature to Ubuntu phone users. By using the...

Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust

by Canonical on 28 June 2013

In my previous blog post, we looked at the key screens for Shorts, the organic grid and the reading view. You can read about the list view behaviour in this...

Latest design guides

by Canonical on 25 June 2013

It’s been a while since our last update to the app design guides so I thought it was about time I shared the latest additions to this growing resource. Screen...

Solving multiple calendar views

by Canonical on 21 June 2013

One of the key challenges with designing calendar applications is the number of ways you can display your time, whether it’s by year, month, week or day....

Motion Graphics Presentation for Ubuntu Mobile

by Canonical on 24 May 2013

This is a presentation of our ‘Paper’ Motion theme for Ubuntu Mobile. The theme is informed by the ‘paper’ graphic style of the mobile OS and we have sought...

Shorts, the RSS reader app

by Canonical on 16 May 2013

As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience...

System Settings for Ubuntu Phone

by Matthew Paul Thomas on 16 May 2013

The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the...

Ubuntu.com update

by Alejandra Obregon on 13 May 2013

I’d like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website....