Web engineering and design team

Discover the latest news and work from the web and design team

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.

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the...

Design and Web team summary –27 September 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  The first week was spent at an Engineering Sprint in Paris France. The second week...

Design and Web team summary – 03 September 2019

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 squad Web is the squad...

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in...

Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to...

Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019

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 squad Web is the squad...

Vanilla Framework 2.0 upgrade guide

We have just released Vanilla Framework 2.0, Canonical’s SCSS styling framework, and – despite our best efforts to minimise the impact – the new features come...

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

Over the past year, we’ve been working hard to bring you the next release of Vanilla framework: version 2.0, our most stable release to date. Since our last...

Design and Web team summary – 10 May 2019

It was another busy iteration for the web and design team, trying to get a lot of work wrapped up before we head off to Lyon, France for our 19.10 Roadmap...

Remote collaborative design

Hands up if you or someone in your team work remotely. I am sure there are many of you out there. One of the biggest growing trends, since I started working...

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

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 team Homepage takeovers...

Design and Web team summary – 20 February 2019

Snapcraft squad Report a Snap Last year, a snap was found in the Snap Store using computing resources for bitcoin mining without user consent. This software...

A fresh look for releases.ubuntu.com

Updating the design of the Ubuntu Releases website using Vanilla Framework

Our new team practices site, and the democratic repository behind it

A month ago, we published our web and design team practices website, from the repository that we’ve been building up for nearly two years now. I’ll try to...

Zero to Snap – Rev up your packaging

Software developers often have enough to worry about. Their focus is creating the best application they can, often without having to consider packaging. We...

Our Kubernetes deployment pipeline

A few weeks ago I joined the web and design team here at Canonical, in the Base Squad, which is our backend team. One of the things that we are responsible...