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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

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 ...

Inayaili de León Persson
4 April 2017

What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Ubuntu Research

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 really wanted to give the method a try, following the book to the letter. In this post I will outline what we’ve learned from our ...

Inayaili de León Persson
3 April 2017

March’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

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 Great README A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day Design Better Cards Chat Systems Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 March 2017

February’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

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 Better Web Fast Good Cheap Data Visualizations by Herwig Scherabon How Flexbox works—explained with big, colorful, animated gifs Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting GitHub’s Open Sourc ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 February 2017

January’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

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 patter. CLARK FROM INVISION, FOREVER! The Imbalance of Culture Fit a big list of good news from 2016 Calculate the ideal height of your ergonomic desk, chair ...

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