Design and web team

All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.

April’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 2 May 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017: Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’ Mockuuups Studio & Sketch Reasons to conference...

Designing in the open

by Anthony Dillon on 25 April 2017

Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories,...

What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

by Inayaili de León Persson on 4 April 2017

Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and...

March’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 3 April 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In...

February’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 March 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team in February 2017: Write Good linter for Atom Land Lines – Chrome Experiments Better Web Typography for a...

January’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 February 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern...

December’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 January 2017

We hope everyone has had a great start to the year and fun holiday season. Here are the best links shared by the design team during the last month of 2016:...

November’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 December 2016

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of November: BARBICAN | Urban Poetry The Future of Web Education A new algorithm for...

Yakkety Yak

by Tom Macfarlane on 7 November 2016

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 release animal artwork is now available to download here. 16.10 release animal Origami Yak Initial design exploration Design development...

October’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 November 2016

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New...

Working to make Juju more accessible

by Joseph Williams on 20 October 2016

In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the...

Download Ubuntu Yakkety Yak 16.10 wallpaper

by Grazina Borosko on 20 October 2016

The Yakkety Yak 16.10 is released and now you can download the new wallpaper by clicking here. It’s the latest part of the set for the Ubuntu 2016 releases...