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Blog posts tagged
"design team"

Leia Ruffini
9 September 2025

How we ran a sprint to refresh our design website, Part 2

Design Article

Part 2 of our series on how our team created content for our design website. Get insights, tools, and lessons to help you run your own design sprint. ...

Leia Ruffini
14 April 2025

How we ran an effective sprint to refresh our design website, Part 1

Design Article

Part 1 of how we ran a design sprint to refresh our website. Sharing what worked, what didn’t, and lessons from designing for open source in mind. ...

Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

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

Design Article

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 approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system and CSS framework. Background When I joined Canonical in ...

Bartek Szopka
10 January 2022

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

Ubuntu Article

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, responsive breakpoints, a new expanding search box and various updates to existing components. Important aspects of the release include dropping a noticeable chunk of deprecated style ...

Claudio Gomboli
19 April 2021

Multiculturalism and globalisation in user experience

Design User Experience

The worldwide Internet audience is growing exponentially less English speaking and less Western centred. In order to engage with this multicultural audience, designers need an interdisciplinary approach in order to expand the design practice with cross-cultural methods. ...

Anthony Dillon
5 February 2020

Design and Web team summary – 5th February 2020

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web and Design team at Canonical.  Some of us attended our internal roadmap alignment sprint in Cape Town. These trips are extremely valuable for the Web and Design team as we interact with almost all teams across the company.  Here are some of the highlights of ...

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019

The lifecycle of a component

Design Design

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal and external websites along with the cloud applications JAAS dashboard and MAAS UI. We release updates approximately every 2 weeks, either for bug fixes, improvements or new componen ...

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
13 June 2019

New release: Vanilla framework 2.0

Cloud and server Article

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 significant release, v1.8.0 back in July last year, we’ve been working hard to bring you new features, improve the framework and make it the most stable version ...

Robin Winslow
26 January 2019

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

Desktop Design

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 explain why I am so proud of it. Why practices? A strong team needs agreed standards and principles, to help anchor discussions and illuminate common goals. When ...

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 ...

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