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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

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

Anthony Dillon
17 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: JavaScript considerations (14)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The JavaScript used on ubuntu.com is very light. We limit its use to small functional elements of the web style guide, which act to enhance the user experience but are never required to deliver the content the user is there to consume. At Canonical we

Anthony Dillon
17 June 2014

Anthony Dillon
13 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: ensuring performance (13)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Performance has always been one of the top priorities when it came to building the responsive ubuntu.com. We started with a list of performance snags and worked to improve each one as much as possible in the time we had. Here is a quick run

Anthony Dillon
13 June 2014

Anthony Dillon
12 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: our Sass architecture (12)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. When working to make the current web style guide responsive, we made some large updates to the core Sass. We decided to update the file and folder structure of our styles. I love reading about other people or organisations Sass architectures, so I thought it

Anthony Dillon
12 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

Canonical
10 June 2014

Malta Sprint

User Experience Ubuntu

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and

Canonical
10 June 2014

Canonical
9 June 2014

Cueing up users

Featured Ubuntu

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed settings, controls, and views through the bottom edge, app developers have a powerful tool for crafting more useful and usable experiences. In earlier postings we’ve...

Canonical
9 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

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