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
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...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu Core
by Tom Macfarlane on 12 October 2016
Recently the brand team designed new logos for Core and Ubuntu Core. Both of which will replace the existing Snappy logo and bring consistency across all...
Ubuntu
A week in Vancouver with the Landscape team
by Inayaili de León Persson on 12 October 2016
Earlier this month Peter and I headed to Vancouver to participate in a week-long Landscape sprint. The main goals of the sprint were to review the work that...
Ubuntu
September’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 3 October 2016
Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of September: Empty States It’s ok to say what’s ok Sully – 208 Seconds Experience Google...
Phone and tablet
August’s reading list
by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 September 2016
August has been a quiet month, as many of team have taken some time off to enjoy the unusually lovely London summer weather, but we have a few great links to...
Ubuntu
What is the best way to display online status? We tested it
by Rae Shambrook on 17 August 2016
Recently I have been working on the visual design for RCS (which stands for rich communications service) group chat. While working on the “Group Info” screen,...
Ubuntu
Convergent terminal
by Canonical on 15 August 2016
We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work...
Ubuntu
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...
Ubuntu
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...
Ubuntu
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...
Ubuntu
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...
Desktop
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...