Web engineering and design team

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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.

Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

by Canonical on 11 September 2014

Brighton is not just a lovely seaside town, mostly known for being overcrowded in Summer by Londoners in search for a bit of escapism, but also the home of a...

Come and meet us at dConstruct

by Luca Paulina on 2 September 2014

Ubuntu is sponsoring the dConstruct “Living with the network” event on the 5th of September at the Brighton Dome. Stop by for a chat with the team, grab some...

Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages

by Robin Winslow on 28 August 2014

On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the...

Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!

by Canonical on 8 August 2014

Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle....

Bringing fluid motion to browsing

by Canonical on 25 July 2014

In the previous Blog Post, we looked at how we use the Recency principle to redesign the experience around bookmarks, tabs and history. In this blog post, we...

Mobile Asia Expo 2014

by Tom Macfarlane on 4 July 2014

Following the success of our new stand design at MWC earlier this year, we applied the same design principles to the Ubuntu stand at last month’s Mobile Asia...

Latest from the web team — June 2014

by Inayaili de León Persson on 19 June 2014

We’re now almost half way through the year and only a few days until summer officially starts here in the UK! In the last few weeks we’ve worked on:...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: final thoughts

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. There are several resources out there on how to create responsive websites, but they tend to...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: testing on multiple devices (15)

by Inayaili de León Persson on 18 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. When working on a responsive project you’ll have to test on multiple operating systems,...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)

by Anthony Dillon on 17 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The JavaScript used on ubuntu.com is very light. We limit its use to small functional elements...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: ensuring performance (13)

by Anthony Dillon on 13 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Performance has always been one of the top priorities when it came to building the responsive...

Making ubuntu.com responsive: our Sass architecture (12)

by Anthony Dillon on 12 June 2014

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. When working to make the current web style guide responsive, we made some large updates to the...