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The Web and design team at Canonical pride themselves on building things properly, not quickly. Always looking for creative ways to push the boundaries of the web.

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Carla Berkers
20 May 2014

Sticky notes and a mobile first approach

User Experience Ubuntu

As the number of Juju users has been rapidly increasing over the past year, so has the number of new solutions in the form of charms and bundles. To help users assess and choose solutions we felt it would be useful to improve the visual presentation of charm and bundle details on manage.jujucharms.com. While we

Carla Berkers
20 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss our findings and plan the work for the following weeks. Planning and scoping was tricky because we had to balance the work required to make the site responsive with

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Canonical
15 May 2014

The browser is dead. Long live the browser!

User Experience Ubuntu

With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even dismissed it as ‘dead’. Who cares about websites and webapps when you can deliver a superior user experience with a native app? Well, we care because the reality is a

Canonical
15 May 2014

Alejandra Obregon
9 May 2014

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas…

User Experience Ubuntu

Last week a few of us flew to Las Vegas for a Juju sprint at the world-famous Flamingo casino (where Hunter S. Thompson stayed in Fear and Loathing). It was the first time in Las Vegas for most of us so we weren’t quite sure what to expect… And while there were plenty of distractions

Alejandra Obregon
9 May 2014

Tom Macfarlane
1 May 2014

New DVD design for 14.04 LTS

Featured Ubuntu

The new DVD designs feature: Desktop Edition – 14.04 wallpaper – Modified design of the folded paper numerals Server Edition – An integrated, 14 module graphic Trusty Tahr – hidden reveal within the DVD pocket Design exploration – folded paper numerals Design exploration – graphic numerals Alternative Desktop Edition...

Tom Macfarlane
1 May 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
24 April 2014

Latest from the web team — April 2014

Notes Ubuntu

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out and it’s great! The period after release tends to be slightly less hectic than the lead up to it, but that doesn’t mean that the web team is not as busy as ever. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release: we’ve published the latest updates

Inayaili de León Persson
24 April 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
2 April 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: lessons learned (5)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. At this point in time, once the pilot projects were either completed or underway, we had already: Created an initial responsive prototype of our main site, based on some common-sense rules Started our first mobile-first and responsive project from scratch...

Inayaili de León Persson
2 April 2014

Mark Shuttleworth
31 March 2014

#10 Ubuntu is built on IAAS for IAAS users

User Experience Ubuntu

Ubuntu is famous for “making things easy”. That’s just as important on the cloud as it is in consumer devices, and we bring the same user-centric design to command-line driven core OS environments on the cloud that drives our desktop, tablet and phone development. The result is a lightweight, clean and fast platform for...

Mark Shuttleworth
31 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Latest from the web team — March 2014

Notes Cloud and server

Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve just launched a new version of the site Ubuntu.com: we’ve launched a localised Chinese homepage that highlights...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta 2!

Featured Ubuntu

A new version of the Ubuntu Resources site is now live, with many tweaks and layout improvements targeted mainly at visitors using medium-sized screens, such as tablets. Ubuntu Resources homepage viewed on a Kindle Fire HD Filtered search If you search for a specific term, you can now filter the search results by topic (such

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making the rules a reality (3)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The rules document we drafted proved a useful and good guide for those few development days, and a proof of concept was created and presented to the rest of the team. When we all sat down to review the result, a few things were clear:

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: pilot projects (4)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Making www.ubuntu.com responsive has been an ongoing goal of ours for a while, and we’ve been discussing and preparing for it for over a year. However, the rest of the world doesn’t wait, and the work doesn’t stop coming in! We knew that a couple

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: setting the rules (2)

Featured Ubuntu

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The front end framework that powers www.ubuntu.com represents the visual evolution of the site over the past few years: designs have become cleaner, lighter and more open. It was designed without responsiveness in mind, but it has proven flexible, robust...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: intro (1)

Featured Ubuntu

We’ve known for a while it was time to convert our main site, www.ubuntu.com, into a responsive site, and we’re now nearing the end of the project! The main www.ubuntu.com site receives millions of visitors every month and it holds information on the variety of Ubuntu products and services, allowing people to download...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

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