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Blog posts tagged
"Design"

Robin Winslow
12 December 2018

How to manage your Git history: Tips for keeping your commits tidy

Desktop Design

One of the things we’re currently working on in the web and design team is a page about writing Git commit messages for our team practices website (I hope to write more about the practices website itself in the coming days). As part of that discussion, we jotted down some quick tips for managing commit ...

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 September 2018

Leading the Vanilla design system

Cloud and server Design

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 ...

Juan Real
17 August 2018

Snapcraft at Europython 2018

Internet of Things Design

In July, several members of our advocacy and design teams went to Europython 2018 in Edinburgh. It was a really well-organised event, mixing great speakers from a vibrant community at a great location. The main reason for us to get closer to the Python developer community was to promote Snapcraft as the best way to ...

Kit Randel
9 August 2018

Conference Report: Fullstack 2018 London

Cloud and server Notes

I recently attended Fullstack 2018, “The Conference on JavaScript, Node & Internet of Things” with my colleagues from the Canonical Web Team in London. Fullstack attempts to cover the full spectrum of the JS ecosystem – frontend, backend, IoT, machine learning and a number of other topics. While I attended a broad range of talks, ...

Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Report from the GNOME Software design sprint

Desktop Article

  A couple of weeks ago representatives from across Canonical met in London to talk about ideas to improve the user experience of GNOME Software.  We had people from the store team, snap advocacy, snapd, design and from the desktop team. We were also fortunate enough to be joined by Richard Hughes representing upstream GNOME ...

Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018

Cloud and server Article

MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map data for both A and B versions. The resulting winner was B. Which has now been made the permanent homepage. MAAS Vanilla integration teething fixes The MAAS squad have ...

Anthony Dillon
27 March 2018

Design and Web team summary – 27 March 2018

Cloud and server Article

The design and web team work on a wide array of projects throughout Canonical. Therefore, we are split into seven squads to handle different aspects of the company. Here is a rundown of the work we completed this week by squad. Snappy squad New snapcraft.io features We implemented a darker themed header across snapcraft.io and ...

Marcus Haslam
26 March 2018

Introducing the new Snapcraft branding

Cloud and server Notes

Early developments of the the Snapcraft brand mark If you’re a regular visitor to Snapcraft.io or any of its associated sites, you will have noticed a change recently to the logo and overall branding which has been in development over the past few months. We have developed a stand-alone brand for Snapcraft, the command line tool ...

Madison Scott-Clary (Makyo)
3 January 2018

Accessing the Juju CLI from within the GUI

Cloud and server Article

In the Juju GUI 2.11.1 release, we are excited to bring a new feature we’ve been working on for a while now: the shell in the GUI. The GUI is a powerful tool, but at times the command-line is necessary. For instance, the ability to SSH into a unit helps for debugging processes or accessing ...

Francesca Granato
10 October 2017

Designing product page templates for ubuntu.com

Ubuntu User Experience

During our user testing sessions on ubuntu.com, we often receive feedback from users about content on the site (“I can’t find this”, “I’d like more of that” or “I want to know this”). Accumulated feedback like this contributed to our decision here on the Web team to find a more standardised way of designing our ...

Robin Winslow
8 September 2017

Command-line usability: A terminal user’s thought process

Ubuntu User Experience

I’ve been thinking about the usability of command-line terminals a lot recently. Command-line interfaces remain mystifying to many people. Usability hobbyists seem as inclined to ask why the terminal exists, as how to optimise it. I’ve also had it suggested to me that the discipline of User Experience (UX) has little to offer the Command- ...

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