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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Robin Winslow
8 September 2017

Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process

Ubuntu User Experience

I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists seem as inclined to ask why the terminal exists, as how to optimise it. I’ve also had it suggested to me that the discipline of User Experience (UX) has little to offer the Command- ...

Anthony Dillon
6 September 2017

Webteam development summary

Ubuntu Development

Iteration 6 dating between 14th to the 25th of August This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework. Vanilla Framework put ...

Anthony Dillon
22 August 2017

Cookie notification component

Ubuntu Notes

We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some fun with them. Previously, for Canonical’s sites, the cookie notification was a shared CSS file and JavaScript file that we injected into the head of each site. This resulted in ...

Inayaili de León Persson
14 August 2017

Vanilla Framework has a new website

Ubuntu Featured

We’re happy to announce the long overdue Vanilla Framework website, where you can find all the relevant links and resources needed to start using Vanilla.   The homepage of vanillaframework.io   When you visit the new site, you will also see the new Vanilla logo, which follows the same visual principles as other logos within ...

Robin Winslow
5 July 2017

Simplifying local development: The ./run executable

Ubuntu User Experience

Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby, NodeJS, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or OpenStack Swift. We have 9 full-time developers – half the number of websites we have. And naturally some of our projects get a lot of time ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
3 July 2017

Designing build.snapcraft.io

Ubuntu Featured

Many open-source software developers use GitHub. Let’s make it as easy as possible for them to build and release their code automatically. ...

Inayaili de León Persson
3 July 2017

June’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in June 2017: How I Create Talks Technical Speaker Starter Kit 4 Things I Know About Pattern Libraries The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching MVP: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think it Means What is the difference between ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 June 2017

May’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in May 2017: Introducing a faster BBC News front page Brick Block Create storyboards for your animations Introducing the Citymapper Smartbus Design Better Data Tables Screen Sizes: Viewport Sizes and Pixel Densities for Popular Devices Lost My Name Design System GitHub’s Public Speaking Cu ...

Robin Winslow
31 May 2017

Our open source websites

Ubuntu Featured

Nowadays free software is everywhere – from browsers to encryption software to operating systems. Even so, it is still relatively rare for the code behind websites and services to be opened up. Stepping into the open Three years ago we started to move our website projects to Github, and we also took this opportunity to ...

Inayaili de León Persson
2 May 2017

April’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

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 2017: Design, Code & Create Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Simple Icons On conference proposal rejections Implementing system f ...

Anthony Dillon
25 April 2017

Designing in the open

Ubuntu User Experience

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, and therefore sharing the entire design process with the world. One of the main things we wanted to improve was the design sign off process whilst increasing visibility for ...

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