Blog posts written by Inayaili de León Persson

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Latest from the web team — March 2014

Notes Cloud and server

Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve just launched a new version of the site Ubuntu.com: we’ve launched a localised Chinese homepage that highlights...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta 2!

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A new version of the Ubuntu Resources site is now live, with many tweaks and layout improvements targeted mainly at visitors using medium-sized screens, such as tablets. Ubuntu Resources homepage viewed on a Kindle Fire HD Filtered search If you search for a specific term, you can now filter the search results by topic (such

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making the rules a reality (3)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The rules document we drafted proved a useful and good guide for those few development days, and a proof of concept was created and presented to the rest of the team. When we all sat down to review the result, a few things were clear:

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: pilot projects (4)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Making www.ubuntu.com responsive has been an ongoing goal of ours for a while, and we’ve been discussing and preparing for it for over a year. However, the rest of the world doesn’t wait, and the work doesn’t stop coming in! We knew that a couple

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: setting the rules (2)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The front end framework that powers www.ubuntu.com represents the visual evolution of the site over the past few years: designs have become cleaner, lighter and more open. It was designed without responsiveness in mind, but it has proven flexible, robust...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: intro (1)

Featured Ubuntu

We’ve known for a while it was time to convert our main site, www.ubuntu.com, into a responsive site, and we’re now nearing the end of the project! The main www.ubuntu.com site receives millions of visitors every month and it holds information on the variety of Ubuntu products and services, allowing people to download...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Latest from the web team — February 2014

Notes Ubuntu

Time flies! February is mostly behind us now and hopefully spring won’t take too long to show up in London. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve released a new iteration of the site this week — have a look and let us know your thoughts! MWC 2014: we’ve created a

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta!

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Today we’ve released a new version of Ubuntu Resources with some new functionality and design improvements, and we’ve now moved from alpha to beta! Feedback We asked visitors to the site to give us their feedback based on their visits on their mobile devices, and we received lots of useful comments since we launched the

Inayaili de León Persson
27 February 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Latest from the web team — January 2014

Notes Ubuntu

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve been working on designs for a new homepage and topic landing pages for the upcoming beta release Canonical website: the new canonical.com is now...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 January 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

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We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate that, in the year that Canonical commemorates its 10th anniversary, our website got some love, so that’s exactly what we set out to do. The homepage

Inayaili de León Persson
9 January 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Latest from the web team — December 2013

Notes Ubuntu

This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: updating the site based on feedback we received from users — keep those comments coming! Canonical website: getting the site ready for launch,

Inayaili de León Persson
19 December 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
21 November 2013

Latest from the web team — November 2013

Notes Ubuntu

Even though Ubuntu 13.10’s release is behind us, we always find ways to keep busy. Here are the highlights of the past four weeks. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources alpha release: we’ve launched our first mobile-first project, currently in alpha Canonical website: Graham, Anthony and Karl have...

Inayaili de León Persson
21 November 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

The new Ubuntu Resources

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Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first methodology and we’re very excited to share this with everyone! As you’ll be able to see, we’re not quite done with it yet, but we wanted to share what we’ve created

Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
28 October 2013

IKEA’s design process

Notes Ubuntu

Graham pointed out a recent Wall Street Journal article out to me as I was going on about my recent kitchen renovation (yes, I’ve used IKEA units). It gives a glimpse into IKEA’s ‘painstaking’ and, for me, fascinating design process. Photo by David Even though, being IKEA, they can very much define how people will

Inayaili de León Persson
28 October 2013