Blog posts tagged
"Vanilla"

28 posts


Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019

Design and Web team summary – 10 June 2019

Article Cloud and server

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Integrating the blog into www.ubuntu.com We have been working on integrating the blog

Anthony Dillon
10 June 2019


Anthony Dillon
7 May 2019

Web and Design team summary – 7 May 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Supported the 19.04 release We updated the websites for 19.04 and added a

Anthony Dillon
7 May 2019


Peter Mahnke
29 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2019

Design Cloud and server

This was a busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical. Many of the things we worked on will be completed in the next iteration, but here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Snapcraft.io New JetBrains publisher page We have now a link to the JetBrains collection of snaps

Peter Mahnke
29 March 2019


Lyubomir Popov
15 March 2019

Vertical rhythm and spacing in Vanilla Framework 2.0

Article Cloud and server

Overview of the typographic improvements to our CSS framework introduced over the past 12 months.

Lyubomir Popov
15 March 2019


Anthony Dillon
4 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 04 February 2019

Design Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Web squad Three new homepage takeovers This iteration we designed three, built two and are showing one new homepage takeover. Branded snap appstores is live Broadsign and arrow webinar is build Financial services webinar is designed Built a new version of the

Anthony Dillon
4 February 2019


Anthony Dillon
4 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 04 December 2018

Design Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Web squad Takeovers In collaboration with the marketing team, we have produced three takeovers Apellix webinar: Discover how Apellix has designed revolutionary software to solve industrial IoT challenges. https://www.ubuntu.com/engage/industrial-drones...

Anthony Dillon
4 December 2018


Anthony Dillon
8 October 2018

Design and Web team summary – 8 October 2018

Article Cloud and server

Snappy Whitelist/ Blacklist territories for your snaps We’ve recently implemented the ability to include or exclude your Snap in certain territories. This functionality has been ported to improve the publisher experience on snapcraft.io. Part of the work is an implementation of a multi-select picker with filtering...

Anthony Dillon
8 October 2018


Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 September 2018

Leading the Vanilla design system

Design Cloud and server

After a busy year of working on our Vanilla CSS framework, I wanted to reflect upon what I have learned, and share my thoughts on leading the design for a growing design system. How it all began Whilst working as a visual designer across our suite of Cloud and Web products, I became aware of

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 September 2018


Anthony Dillon
13 August 2018

Design and Web team summary – 13 August 2018

Design Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. The team manages all web projects across Canonical. From www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. Web The web team were asked to take over the development of mir-server.io. This has begun

Anthony Dillon
13 August 2018


Anthony Dillon
18 June 2018

Design and Web team summary – 18 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. The team manages all web projects across Canonical. From www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. MAAS squad Code school We ran our first team code school which was “Install & run

Anthony Dillon
18 June 2018


Anthony Dillon
4 June 2018

Design and web team summary – 4 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. We manage all web projects across Canonical – from www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. Web A/B tests on blog Setup an A/B test on blog.ubuntu.com to test different newsletter sign-up

Anthony Dillon
4 June 2018


Robin Winslow
20 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 20 April 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. We manage all web projects across Canonical – from www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. MAAS Table consistency and improvements MAAS UI contains a lot of data in tables, posing an...

Robin Winslow
20 April 2018


Anthony Dillon
19 November 2015

Using Vanilla with Jekyll

Development Ubuntu

We’re using NPM as Vanilla’s package manager. Which gives us a number of advantages such as, an easy way to install and update the CSS framework. This all worked fine until we hit an issue with Github Pages. They do not supporting install scripts therefore it is not possible in npm install. Highlighted in this

Anthony Dillon
19 November 2015


Anthony Dillon
22 June 2015

Introducing Vanilla

Article Ubuntu

Why we needed a new framework Some time ago the web team at Canonical developed a CSS framework we called ‘Guidelines’. Guidelines helped us to maintain our online visual language across all our sites and comprised of a number of base and component Sass files which were combined and served as a monolithic CSS file

Anthony Dillon
22 June 2015


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