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Inayaili de León Persson

Inayaili de León Persson

72 posts

Inayaili de León Persson
11 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: updating font sizes and increasing readability (11)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. All our designs are created using the Ubuntu font, and the websites are not exception. Ubuntu.com was already using a carefully refined and tested typographic scale that we have evolved over the years. Early in the project, we had decided that the large screen view ...

Inayaili de León Persson
6 June 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches! We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: adapting our navigation to small screens (9)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. One of the biggest challenges when making the move to responsive was tackling the navigation in ubuntu.com. This included rethinking not only the main navigation with first, second and third level links, but also a big 3-tier footer and global navigation. Desktop size main na ...

Inayaili de León Persson
29 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making our grid responsive (8)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. A big part of converting our existing fixed-width desktop site to be responsive was to make sure we had a flexible grid that would flow seamlessly from small to large screens. From the start, we decided that we were going to approach the move as ...

Inayaili de León Persson
23 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: approach to content (7)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. If you’re transitioning a fixed-width website into a responsive one with several time and resource constraints, updating all your content to be mobile-friendly will likely not be an option. It’s important to understand what your constraints are and work within them. This is w ...

Inayaili de León Persson
22 May 2014

Latest from the web team — May 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re fast approaching the summer, and the first few sunny days have already arrived in London. The web team cannot slow its pace though… In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Responsive ubuntu.com: we’ve had a sprint to clean up our processes and CSS files after the big responsive release last month Ubuntu.com: we’ve ...

Inayaili de León Persson
19 May 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: scoping the work (6)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Following the designers and developers sprint, we had a full web team workshop day to discuss our findings and plan the work for the following weeks. Planning and scoping was tricky because we had to balance the work required to make the site responsive with ...

Inayaili de León Persson
24 April 2014

Latest from the web team — April 2014

Ubuntu Notes

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out and it’s great! The period after release tends to be slightly less hectic than the lead up to it, but that doesn’t mean that the web team is not as busy as ever. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release: we’ve published the latest updates ...

Inayaili de León Persson
2 April 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: lessons learned (5)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. At this point in time, once the pilot projects were either completed or underway, we had already: Created an initial responsive prototype of our main site, based on some common-sense rules Started our first mobile-first and responsive project from scratch Created and launched ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Latest from the web team — March 2014

Cloud and server Notes

Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve just launched a new version of the site Ubuntu.com: we’ve launched a localised Chinese homepage that highlights Ubuntu Kylin Juju G ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta 2!

Ubuntu Featured

A new version of the Ubuntu Resources site is now live, with many tweaks and layout improvements targeted mainly at visitors using medium-sized screens, such as tablets. Ubuntu Resources homepage viewed on a Kindle Fire HD Filtered search If you search for a specific term, you can now filter the search results by topic (such ...

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