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Blog posts tagged
"Design"


Maximilian Blazek
6 November 2024

Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure

Design Article

How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes. ...


Julie Muzina
13 August 2024

Visual Testing: GitHub Actions Migration & Test Optimisation

Design Article

What is Visual Testing? Visual testing analyses the visual appearance of a user interface. Snapshots of pages are taken to create a “baseline”, or the current expectation of how each page should appear. Proposed changes are then compared against the baseline. Any snapshots that deviate from the baseline are flagged for review. For example ...


Ana Sereijo
19 April 2024

Let’s talk open design

Design Article

Why aren’t there more design contributions in open source? Help us find out! ...


Igor Ljubuncic
24 January 2024

Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing

HPC HPC

In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what happens when you go from a regular car to a supercar or a hypercar – the challenges and problems you encounter at 100 km/h are vastly ...


Anthony Dillon
25 October 2023

Web team – hack week 2023

Design Article

Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach and so almost everything we do and work on can be found publicly on the Canonical Github org. It is not enough to simply open our ...


Bartek Szopka
18 July 2023

Vanilla 4.0 release

Design Article

Last week we released a new major version of the Vanilla framework. Vanilla 4.0 introduces the elements of the new style used for a current rebranding of Canonical’s brochure websites, including typography changes of headings utilising new variable Ubuntu font, wider grid width, removed rounded corners, some updated colours, and updates t ...


Goulin Khoge
14 October 2022

Introducing a VSCode extension for Vanilla CSS Framework

Ubuntu Article

The Vanilla CSS Framework is a utility class-based and customizable SASS library that is the go-to when it comes to styling websites and dashboards across the majority of projects at Canonical. Knowing all the class utilities could be tricky. That’s why we make sure that our documentation is up-to-date and accessible as much as possible. ...


toto
11 October 2022

Design and Web team summary – 23 September 2022

Ubuntu Article

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. During this iteration, the team met in London for a team workshop. It was the first time a lot ...


toto
4 October 2022

3 step guide to start Hacktoberfest

Ubuntu Article

Last week, the web and design team organised an internal Hacktoberfest. Our goal was simple: contribute to Open Source projects, understand what makes a great contribution experience, and how we could get inspired for our own projects. Here are 3-step guides from our experience during this Hacktoberfest. 1. What should I contribute to? He ...


Anthony Dillon
23 September 2022

Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  We move ...


Anthony Dillon
23 September 2022

Design and Web team summary – 9 September 2022

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Why Ope ...


Anthony Dillon
30 August 2022

Design and Web team summary – 26 August 2022

Design Article

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Applica ...


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