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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...