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.

App Design Clinic – OwnCloud App #9

by Canonical on 27 June 2016

The Ubuntu App Design Clinic is back! This month members of the Design Team James Mulholland (UX Designer), Jouni Helminen (Visual Designer) and Andrea...

QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

by Andrea Bernabei on 17 June 2016

QtDay is the only Italian event dedicated to Qt. It is held yearly by Develer and brings together company products that are developed using Qt, as well as Qt...

The App Design Clinics are back!

by James Mulholland on 14 June 2016

We’re very happy to announce the return of the Ubuntu App Design Clinics. The first session is planned for 4.00PM BST on Friday the 17th of June, with...

May’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 June 2016

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: MyData 2016 Conference Next-level collaboration: the future of content and design...

Edge education

by Grazina Borosko on 24 May 2016

Last year we were working on OOBE redesign with the aim to improve first user experience with Ubuntu phone. Now the Design Team is working on the second part...

Autopilot: benefits of early release

by Carla Berkers on 24 May 2016

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the

Colour palette updates

by Rae Shambrook on 20 May 2016

Over the past few months, we’ve given you a peek into our evolving Suru design language with our wallpaper, convergence and Clock App blog posts. Suru is...

App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

by Canonical on 11 May 2016

In the coming months we will be rolling out the new app design guidelines, which will give you the latest toolkit best practices and patterns so you can make...

How we introduced Scrum to the Web Team

by Magdalena Mirowicz on 6 May 2016

At the beginning of the year our team – who look after the core websites in the Ubuntu ecosystem – decided to adjust our project delivery process and go...

April’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 3 May 2016

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: Framer – Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations...

Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04

by Grazina Borosko on 28 April 2016

April marks the release of Xerus 16.4 and with it we bring a new design of our iconic wallpaper. This post will take you through our design process and how we...

Ubuntu orange update

by Jamie Young on 26 April 2016

Recently, you may have seen our new colour palette update in the SDK. One notable change is the new hex code we’ve assigned to Ubuntu Orange for screen use....