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 – 22 April 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 8 April 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 25 March 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 25 February 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

How we implemented an interactive Live Demo Box

The Vanilla squad recently spent a two week sprint prototyping an interactive live demo box. We were tasked with coming up with a proof of concept, to enable...

A new look for the Circle of Friends

The Circle of Friends is getting an update! Discover the new Ubuntu logo and the journey behind it.

Design and Web team summary – 11 March 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 11 February 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 14 January 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Vanilla’s accessibility documentation process

Following on from our previous post about accessibility by design, we’d like to share our accessibility documentation process here in the Web & Design team....

Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are...

Design and Web team summary – 17 December 2021

Happy Christmas and New Years everyone! I hope you are all ready for a well deserved break.  The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations...

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

We’ve just released Vanilla v3.0 – a new major update to our CSS framework. It includes a few significant updates and improvements around spacing variables,...

Design and Web team summary – 3 December 2021

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 19 November 2021

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...

Design and Web team summary – 16 November 2021

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some...