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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.

September’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 October 2015

Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue...

Why the first impression matters

by Canonical on 28 September 2015

We believe that the first impression matters, especially when it comes to introducing a new product for the first time. Our aim is to delight the user from...

Prepare for when Ubuntu freezes

by Robin Winslow on 28 September 2015

I routinely have at least 20 tabs open in Chrome, 10 files open in Atom (my editor of choice) and I’m often running virtual machines as well. This means my...

dConstruct 2015

by Jamie Young on 18 September 2015

We had a great time at dConstruct in Brighton last Friday. Ubuntu was the premier sponsor of the event, so 15 of us headed down from London in the small hours...

We’re going to be at dConstruct!

by Inayaili de León Persson on 8 September 2015

Ubuntu is once again sponsoring the excellent dConstruct conference, taking place this Friday, 11th September in Brighton. This year’s theme is “Designing the...

August’s reading list

by Inayaili de León Persson on 1 September 2015

The design team members are constantly sharing interesting, fun, weird, links with each other, so we thought it might be a nice idea to share a selection of...

Publishing Vanilla

by Tristram Oaten on 24 August 2015

We’ve got a new CSS framework at Canonical, named Vanilla. My colleague Ant has a great write-up introducing Vanilla. Essentially it’s a CSS microframework...

Django behind a proxy: Fixing absolute URLs

by Robin Winslow on 18 August 2015

I recently tried to setup OpenID for one of our sites to support authentication with login.ubuntu.com, and it took me much longer than I’d anticipated because...

Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library

by Robin Winslow on 5 August 2015

We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our...

Converting old guidelines to vanilla

by Richard McCartney on 24 July 2015

How the previous guidelines worked Guidelines essentially is a framework built by the Canonical web design team. The whole framework has an array of tools to...

The monochromatic makeover

by Canonical on 16 July 2015

We have given our monochromatic icons a small facelift to make them more elegant, lighter and consistent across the platform by incorporating our Suru...

Introducing Vanilla

by Anthony Dillon on 22 June 2015

Why we needed a new framework Some time ago the web team at Canonical developed a CSS framework we called ‘Guidelines’. Guidelines helped us to maintain our...