Blog posts tagged
"web"

28 posts

Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)

Featured Ubuntu

Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not be the perfect standard, but it will bring with it many long-awaited speed improvements to internet communication: Sending of many different resources in the first response Multiplexing...

Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

Inayaili de León Persson
26 September 2013

Latest from the web team — September 2013

Article Ubuntu

We might have been quiet, but we have been busy! Here’s a quick overview of what the web team has been up to recently. In the past month we’ve worked on: New juju.ubuntu.com website: we’ve revamped the information architecture, revisited the key journeys and updated the look to be more in line with www.ubuntu.com Fenchurch

Inayaili de León Persson
26 September 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
3 January 2013

Designing the new Ubuntu for phone pages

Article Ubuntu

As you’ve probably seen, Canonical has just announced Ubuntu on phones. We’re all very excited about it, especially since so many of us have been working hard on this project. Here’s an insight into the design of the new phone pages on ubuntu.com. Deciding what to say The tricky part when designing pages to show

Inayaili de León Persson
3 January 2013

Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

A fresh-looking Design Blog

Article Ubuntu

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally done it: the Design Blog has a new look! Let me take you through the main aspects we wanted to improve on. Why change? The last blog design was nearly four years old. With its small font sizes and crammed pages, the text was difficult to

Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

Inayaili de León Persson
27 January 2012

Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site

Article Ubuntu

If you’ve ever had to create Ubuntu or Canonical related design materials, chances are you had a look at the Brand Guidelines, which, until now, have only existed in the form of bulky PDFs. Those days are over, as we happily introduce the brand new Ubuntu Brand Guidelines site, where you can read the guidelines

Inayaili de León Persson
27 January 2012

Inayaili de León Persson
26 January 2012

Some guidelines for warm grey text on the web

Article Ubuntu

Warm grey is one of the neutral colours from Ubuntu and Canonical’s colour palette. It has been added to the palette for balance, being a bridge between the vibrant orange and aubergine. The brand guidelines specify that warm grey (hex value: #AEA79F) can be used for: backgrounds, graphics, pictograms, dot patterns,...

Inayaili de León Persson
26 January 2012

Canonical
2 November 2011

“When Humans make stuff, we tend to make interesting things.”

Article Ubuntu

Last night I watched “Press Pause Play” which in it’s own words is a film about fear, hope and digital culture. If you’ve not heard the talk surrounding the movie one of the trailers is below and we’ll catch up once you’ve … well … caught up 🙂 Good huh? The interesting thing about Press

Canonical
2 November 2011

Canonical
16 October 2011

Thanks a billion! Ubuntu on Google Webfonts

Design Ubuntu

Kudos to everyone using the Ubuntu Font Family on their websites as a web font! This week the total to date reached over one billion requests—and it’ll go up even faster if you add Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed to your sites too. Shortly after the Ubuntu Font Family was added to Google Webfonts directory,

Canonical
16 October 2011

Inayaili de León Persson
27 September 2011

The new Ubuntu App Developer website

Design Ubuntu

We’re happy to unveil the brand new Ubuntu App Developer website today, a place where developers who want to create Ubuntu applications can find all the information they need and get in touch with the Ubuntu app developer community to share ideas, ask questions and get all the news and events. Ubuntu App Developer’s website

Inayaili de León Persson
27 September 2011

Canonical
13 July 2011

Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814

Article Ubuntu

Say it loud and say it proud! #dd4814 is the Ubuntu Orange and we want the world to know about it!

Canonical
13 July 2011

Inayaili de León Persson
17 June 2011

Sharing Ubuntu with the world

Article Ubuntu

We all know Ubuntu is great, but we want even more people to know just how great. With this in mind, we thought we’d give the visitors of ubuntu.com the tools to spread the word about Ubuntu. As of today, you can see Tweet and Like buttons on some of the key pages of the

Inayaili de León Persson
17 June 2011

Inayaili de León Persson
28 April 2011

A fresh new look for Ubuntu.com

Article Ubuntu

Natty Narwhal isn’t the only thing new today in Ubuntu. Along with it, and as you may have already noticed, we have updated some areas of the Ubuntu website, including a fresh new homepage. What’s new? This overhaul of the website focuses on improving and refining the experience for users who are new to Ubuntu

Inayaili de León Persson
28 April 2011

Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

29 days later

Article Ubuntu

It’s been 29 days since I’ve started working at Canonical and, let me tell you, they went by really fast. In the past few weeks I have worked on lots of projects and there is a lot more in the pipeline. I’ve mainly been working on the “realign” (rather than “redesign”) of canonical.com and ubuntu.com;

Inayaili de León Persson
29 September 2010

Canonical
23 September 2010

Intial Hebrew trials

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we arrived at some of the basic proportions. Pages 1 to 5 deal with the proportional relationship of the Hebrew height against the Latin x- and

Canonical
23 September 2010

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