Blog posts tagged
"design process"

4 posts

Leia Ruffini
14 April 2025

How we ran an effective sprint to refresh our website, Part 1

Article Design

Part 1 of how we ran a design sprint to refresh our website. Sharing what worked, what didn’t, and lessons from designing for open source in mind.

Leia Ruffini
14 April 2025

Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

Article Design

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system and CSS framework. Background When I joined...

Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

Robin Winslow
26 January 2019

Our new team practices site, and the democratic repository behind it

Design Desktop

A month ago, we published our web and design team practices website, from the repository that we’ve been building up for nearly two years now. I’ll try to explain why I am so proud of it. Why practices? A strong team needs agreed standards and principles, to help anchor discussions and illuminate common goals. When

Robin Winslow
26 January 2019

Canonical
16 February 2012

The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Design Ubuntu

How is Unity designed?  How can I contribute to this process?  Why did you make thus and such decision? The Unity Design Team is frequently asked these questions, and this article aims to de-mystify our design process and highlight the different ways in which volunteer contributions can help improve the Ubuntu user...

Canonical
16 February 2012