Blog posts tagged
"Design"

624 posts


toto
25 March 2021

Meet my co-worker, webbot

Article Ubuntu

Like every team, the web team has a set of features that are super useful to automate. We use Hubot, a technology owned by GitHub to write very simple bot scripts that we can interact with. The way we use the bot is mostly via Mattermost. We called it: webbot. In this article I would

toto
25 March 2021


Anthony Dillon
17 March 2021

Design and Web team summary – 17 March 2021

Article Design

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Clément, I live in Toulouse, France. I joined Canonical four months ago and I’m working as a

Anthony Dillon
17 March 2021


Anthony Dillon
16 March 2021

CSS Animations

Article Design

In our team, we run “masterclasses” every few weeks, to share knowledge throughout the team. Similar to Robin’s post on regex basics, here’s the contents of the masterclass on “CSS animations” that I just presented to the team. The fundamentals A simple `transform` example: .btn:hover { transform: translateY(-40px);}...

Anthony Dillon
16 March 2021


Anthony Dillon
1 March 2021

Design and Web team summary – 01 March 2021

Design Design

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

Anthony Dillon
1 March 2021


Anthony Dillon
19 February 2021

Supporting “I don’t care about cookies”

Article Design

It all started one day when my boss turned to me and said, the legal team have said we need to ask a person before our websites can start using non-essential cookies. So we started the cookie-policy project which is written in vanilla JavaScript with accompanying styling and the back-end implemented via Google Tag Manager.

Anthony Dillon
19 February 2021


Robin Winslow
18 February 2021

Regex basics

Design Design

An overview of regex and how to use it, from a few different angles. Including appropriate warnings like ‘avoid regex’.

Robin Winslow
18 February 2021


Scott Mason Nash
16 February 2021

Improving the code experience in Vanilla

Article Design

For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key goal is code clarity – code is not particularly resistant to errors: a missing character (or in some languages, a space or tab) can

Scott Mason Nash
16 February 2021


Anthony Dillon
15 February 2021

Design and Web team summary – 15 February 2021

Article Design

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

Anthony Dillon
15 February 2021


Anthony Dillon
8 February 2021

Design and Web team summary – 8 February 2021

Design Design

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

Anthony Dillon
8 February 2021


toto
8 February 2021

Open source, teamwork and mental health: my FOSDEM 2021

Article Ubuntu

For the past 4 years I have participated in FOSDEM, a conference about free and open source software for developers. I love this event. It’s a welcome opportunity to see friends, watch great talks and drink excellent Belgium beer. Unfortunately, this year it was a remote event. The event was managed via matrix, a decentralized

toto
8 February 2021


Anthony Dillon
27 January 2021

Design and Web team summary – 27th January 2021

Design Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Refresh of cloud-images.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu Cloud Images...

Anthony Dillon
27 January 2021


Claudio Gomboli
29 December 2020

Design and Web team summary – 29 December 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. We designed and added the new Android in the cloud on arm native...

Claudio Gomboli
29 December 2020


Anthony Dillon
8 December 2020

Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. Anbox Cloud UI To make it easier for customers to manage their...

Anthony Dillon
8 December 2020


Anthony Dillon
24 November 2020

Design and Web team summary – 24th November 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi, I am Carlos Wu. I work for the Webteam as a web developer, and I just recently reached 1 year at Canonical! I have worked previously in a number

Anthony Dillon
24 November 2020