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Simon Coffey, a Developer at FutureLearn, discusses testing simple Ruby objects with three types of test double: Stubs, Mocks and Spies. Software testing is a very broad topic, and opinions differ …
Job Swapping: What happens when a developer and a designer swap jobs?
Sam, a Developer, and Alla, a Designer, recently swapped jobs for half a day at FutureLearn. Here they explain why, what they learnt and how you could do your own …
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Anonymising job applications for technical roles at FutureLearn
Mal Pinder, a Developer at FutureLearn, discusses why and how we’ve started to anonymise job applications for technical roles at FutureLearn. Since August, I’ve been helping organise Technology Team hiring here …
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Things we love 11
At FutureLearn, we’re always on the look out for new sources of inspiration and share what we learn with the world every month in our “Things we love” series. Here, …
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“Your courses” or “My courses”? Making personal pronouns consistent in the FutureLearn user interface
If you’ve signed in to FutureLearn recently, you’ll notice that what were your “My courses” are now “Your courses”. Our Interaction Designer Alla Kholmatova explains the thinking behind this user …
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My first month at FutureLearn: how does it compare to agency life?
Matt Hill is an experienced developer/designer who recently joined FutureLearn as a Front-end Developer. In this post he shares some thoughts about his first month working on the FutureLearn platform, …
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What does a Creative Director do?
In this post, Lucy Blackwell looks at six objects that describe her role as Creative Director at FutureLearn. Roles can develop and change as quickly as companies and industries grow …
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Making sense of atomic design: molecules and organisms
Our Interaction Designer, Alla Kholmatova, reflects on some of the aspects of using atomic design at FutureLearn. A year ago we wrote about building our first pattern library at FutureLearn and …
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Your database is a distributed system
James Coglan, a Developer at FutureLearn, discusses a trade-off in how Rails handles database migrations, and how you and your team can handle this. One of the major features that …
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Things we love 10
At FutureLearn, we’re always looking for new sources of inspiration and share what we learn with the world every month in our “Things we love” series. Here, our team talk …
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Imposter syndrome: how we act and work together
Often when we write about imposter syndrome in developers, we look at what the individual can do to stop it from happening. In this post, FutureLearn Developer Melinda Seckington looks …
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Things we love 9
At FutureLearn, we’re always on the look out for new sources of inspiration and share what we learn with the world every month in our “Things we love” series. Here, …
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The FutureLearn test suite
Chris Zetter, a Developer at FutureLearn, talks about our automated test suite for the Ruby on Rails application, which powers the FutureLearn website. Testing a Rails application Having code that’s well …
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Redesigning FutureLearn’s Statements of Participation
This week, we’re launching a redesigned Statement of Participation with a new digital counterpart. In this post, our Visual Designer, Kieran McCann, gives an insight into the redesign process and our …
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FutureLearn has a Tampon Club
Mal Pinder, one of our Developers, explains what a Tampon Club is, and how and why we’ve set one up here at FutureLearn. tampon.club is a website by “a shadowy cabal …
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