Blog posts written by Inayaili de León Persson

Inayaili de León Persson
8 September 2015

We’re going to be at dConstruct!

Notes Ubuntu

Ubuntu is once again sponsoring the excellent dConstruct conference, taking place this Friday, 11th September in Brighton. This year’s theme is “Designing the future” and we can’t wait to hear what the stellar lineup of speakers has to share. As ever, if you’re going to be there, come and say hi, and grab a few

Inayaili de León Persson
8 September 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2015

August’s reading list

Notes Ubuntu

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 those links with everyone. Here are the links that have been passed around during last month: Scaling Agile At Spotify Design Documentaries A Designer’s Guide to Wearables

Inayaili de León Persson
1 September 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
19 June 2014

Latest from the web team — June 2014

Notes Ubuntu

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: Responsive ubuntu.com: we’ve finished publishing the series on making ubuntu.com responsive on the design blog Ubuntu.com: we’ve released a hub for our legal documents and...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 June 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
18 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: final thoughts

Featured Ubuntu

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 go through the process in an ideal scenario, where the project starts with a blank slate, from scratch. That’s why we thought it would be nice to share the

Inayaili de León Persson
18 June 2014

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

Featured Ubuntu

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, browsers and devices, whether you’re using emulators or the real deal. Testing on the actual devices is preferable — it’s hard to emulate the feel of a device in your hand

Inayaili de León Persson
18 June 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
11 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception. Ubuntu.com was already using a carefully refined and tested typographic scale that we have evolved over the years. Early in the project, we had decided that the large...

Inayaili de León Persson
11 June 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
6 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches! We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by

Inayaili de León Persson
6 June 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
30 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation in ubuntu.com. This included rethinking not only the main navigation with first, second and third level links, but also a big 3-tier footer and global navigation....

Inayaili de León Persson
30 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
29 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making our grid responsive (8)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. A big part of converting our existing fixed-width desktop site to be responsive was to make sure we had a flexible grid that would flow seamlessly from small to large screens. From the start, we decided that we were going to approach the move as

Inayaili de León Persson
29 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
23 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: approach to content (7)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. If you’re transitioning a fixed-width website into a responsive one with several time and resource constraints, updating all your content to be mobile-friendly will likely not be an option. It’s important to understand what your constraints are and work...

Inayaili de León Persson
23 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
22 May 2014

Latest from the web team — May 2014

Notes Ubuntu

We’re fast approaching the summer, and the first few sunny days have already arrived in London. The web team cannot slow its pace though… In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Responsive ubuntu.com: we’ve had a sprint to clean up our processes and CSS files after the big responsive release last month Ubuntu.com: we’ve

Inayaili de León Persson
22 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss our findings and plan the work for the following weeks. Planning and scoping was tricky because we had to balance the work required to make the site responsive with

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
24 April 2014

Latest from the web team — April 2014

Notes Ubuntu

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out and it’s great! The period after release tends to be slightly less hectic than the lead up to it, but that doesn’t mean that the web team is not as busy as ever. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release: we’ve published the latest updates

Inayaili de León Persson
24 April 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
2 April 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: lessons learned (5)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. At this point in time, once the pilot projects were either completed or underway, we had already: Created an initial responsive prototype of our main site, based on some common-sense rules Started our first mobile-first and responsive project from scratch...

Inayaili de León Persson
2 April 2014