Re:Codecademy - how not to do a redesign
by jcampbell1 on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @12:27AM
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Since you asked: When using the product, I see:
"That's correct! Next Exercise" often.
"Next Exercise" should probably look more like a button. It is not obvious that it is clickable, especially to the 6% of males who are color blind.
Thanks for this. Added it as an issue in GitHub and we'll start working on it soon!
It looks like the downvote police are out in full force - but I'm not backing down. The redesign is strong. The only concern I have is how the current layout will grow with the addition of more courses.
Michal - why not permit some comments on your blog so we can bring the discussion to you? You made some strong statements that deserve a rebuttal.
The layout was actually designed to facilitate the addition of more courses - we'll iterate based on feedback but also on our longer-term vision. Thanks again, calydon.
I was doing each lesson weekly until I got too busy, and your site has since emailed me 3 times saying I should start my Code Year and presents me with info for week 1. I finished week 1 the day you launched, it doesn't seem to be checking my progress telling me to pick up where I left off.
We've received a lot of feedback on our initial courses page redesign since a soft launch on Saturday. We're working on making it easier for our users to find what's important to them and to discover interesting courses among those available on Codecademy.
I'd love to hear everyone else's feedback - we've been making incremental changes since the launch of the redesign (we work all the time) and we won't stop until it's incredibly easy to find the right courses. As the author mentions, we're starting with gradual changes. Thanks for your patience.