Reimagining Codecademy.com

Our 10 Design Principles

Narrative Product Development

Using storytelling to improve products

Horror Vacui

and the battle for white space

Testing with ReactJS at Codecademy

At Codecademy, we use ReactJS to build our learning environment. We’ve really enjoyed working with React; it’s well-suited to our learning environment, which is for the most part a single-page app.

Building Animations in React From Scratch

Recently I was talking with a designer on my team about her vision for a redesign of a…

Rapid iOS Prototyping with React Native at Codecademy

My thoughts after two days of experimentation…

Codecademy’s Quest to Connect Learners to Economic Opportunity

Redesigning Our Learning Environment: Process

The first of a two-part case study.

open door user testing 

the importance of team involvement while testing

PropTypes Validation in React + Karma

At Codecademy, we use Karma + Jasmine to test our React codebase. We also use PropTypes to document what props each React component expects.

Problem: we weren’t actually validating the PropTypes, so even though we made an effort to keep…