Blog posts tagged "Design"
Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to...
As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source benefits...
Open source thrives on engineering-driven processes. Fast feedback loops, terminal tools, Git workflows: they’re the lifeblood of how we build software in the...
Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in...
Last year, we had the opportunity to speak at Regent’s UX Conference (Regent’s University London’s conference to showcase UX work by staff, students, and...
Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project...
FOSDEM is one of the biggest and most exciting open source events of the year, held at the Solbosch campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels),...
What if you could work on real-world projects, shape cutting-edge technology, collaborate with developers across the world, make a meaningful impact with your...
This is the first of two blog posts about how we created the color palette for a new design system at Canonical. In this post I share my journey into...
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.
Canonical’s Platform Engineering team has been hard at work crafting documentation in Rockcraft and Charmcraft around native support for web app frameworks...
Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need...
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.
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and...
Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my...
How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.