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Blog posts tagged "Design"

Transcribing user interviews with Amazon Transcribe

A quick ‘how to’ on using Amazon’s Transcribe service to turn user interview recordings into text-transcripts.

Design and Web team summary – 12 April 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. This iteration has seen many of the team out of the office as schools are out in the UK. This has not limited

Design and Web team summary – 29 March 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  In this iteration, th

Meet my co-worker, webbot

Like every team, the web team has a set of features that are super useful to automate. We use Hubot, a technology owned by GitHub to write very simple bot scripts that we can interact with. The way we use the bot is mostly via Mattermost. We called it: webbot. In this article I would

Design and Web team summary – 17 March 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Clément, I live in Toulouse, France. I joined Canonical four months ago and I’m working as a

CSS Animations

In our team, we run “masterclasses” every few weeks, to share knowledge throughout the team. Similar to Robin’s post on regex basics, here’s the contents of the masterclass on “CSS animations” that I just presented to the team. The fundamentals A simple `transform` example: .btn:hover { transform: translateY(-40px);} This just jumps from

Design and Web team summary – 01 March 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  This iteration the we

Supporting “I don’t care about cookies”

It all started one day when my boss turned to me and said, the legal team have said we need to ask a person before our websites can start using non-essential cookies. So we started the cookie-policy project which is written in vanilla JavaScript with accompanying styling and the back-end implemented via Google Tag Manager.

Regex basics

An overview of regex and how to use it, from a few different angles. Including appropriate warnings like ‘avoid regex’.

Improving the code experience in Vanilla

For a long time, code in Vanilla was simply set in a monospace font, and we saw an opportunity to improve the way we deliver code examples to users. A key goal is code clarity – code is not particularly resistant to errors: a missing character (or in some languages, a space or tab) can

Design and Web team summary – 15 February 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Ubuntu Core 20 releas

Design and Web team summary – 8 February 2021

The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  CVE table updates We

Open source, teamwork and mental health: my FOSDEM 2021

For the past 4 years I have participated in FOSDEM, a conference about free and open source software for developers. I love this event. It’s a welcome opportunity to see friends, watch great talks and drink excellent Belgium beer. Unfortunately, this year it was a remote event. The event was managed via matrix, a decentralized

Design and Web team summary – 27th January 2021

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Refresh of cloud-images.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu Cloud Images website was overdue a r

Design and Web team summary – 29 December 2020

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. We designed and added the new Android in the cloud on arm native servers  Engage

Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020

The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. Anbox Cloud UI To make it easier for customers to manage their various Anbox