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Managing interruptions: 3 ideas for developers (or anyone)

Being interrupted when you’re in the middle of a piece of work can sometimes be annoying, sometimes disastrous. Here, Mal Pinder, one of our Developers, explains why it’s good to welcome interruptions and shares some …

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Telling stories with your Git history

Seb Jacobs, a Developer at FutureLearn, discusses how we maintain a useful Git history and outlines five principles we live by when making code commits. Development started on the FutureLearn platform …

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Things we love 3

At FutureLearn, we’re always on the look out for new sources of inspiration and keen to share what we learn with the world. So here, in the third of a …

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Building testable infrastructure with Chef, Test Kitchen and ServerSpec

Matthew Valentine-House, a Developer at FutureLearn, discusses how we use tools such as Chef, Test Kitchen and ServerSpec to build testable infrastructure. Building reliable infrastructure is hard; it always has …

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Things we love 2

At FutureLearn, we’re always on the look out for new sources of inspiration and keen to share what we learn with the world. So here, in the second of a …

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Things we love 1

At FutureLearn, we’re always on the look out for new sources of inspiration and keen to share what we learn with the world. So here, in the first of a new series of …

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How we made our “Like” button accessible for screen reader users

If you use a screen reader, you’ll now get feedback when you “Like” a comment on FutureLearn – something which rarely happens on other sites and social networks. Our Front-end …

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How we designed FutureLearn’s new course categories

In October, our product manager, Tessa Cooper, introduced our new course categories. Here, our ‎Interaction Designer, Alla Kholmatova, discusses how we came up with these categories and designed new pages for them. I’d like to …

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Building our first pattern library

We recently redesigned and rewrote our pattern library to help us build the FutureLearn site. Here, our Interaction Designer, Alla Kholmatova, and one of our Front-end Developers, Nicky Thompson, share the …

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Creating a virtual tech learning hub to develop web skills

This week, Matt Walton, our Head of Product, spoke at an event in Helsinki, which asked: “Are MOOCs providing the European workforce with necessary web skills?” Here, he reflects on …

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Design in the time of agile

Sanjay Mistry, our Senior Visual Designer, discusses the benefits of an agile approach to design and offers six tips based on the way we work at FutureLearn. In this internet of …

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Meet the Breakfast Club: taking online courses together at FutureLearn

We’ve recently met FutureLearners from around the world, as part of a series of posts to celebrate our first birthday. Here, in our final instalment, Lucy Blackwell, our Creative Director, looks …

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How we told the story of our first year in numbers

To celebrate our first birthday, we built an interactive that tells our story so far with some remarkable numbers – like the fact that 30,638 comments were left on just …

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For Ada Lovelace Day: the women who inspire us at FutureLearn

It’s Ada Lovelace Day: a day to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Here, members of the FutureLearn team talk about the women – both …

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Today is our first birthday

Our first course began a year ago today. We’ve got lots of things going on to celebrate this, our first birthday, as well as the many partners and learners who’ve been …

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Managing interruptions: 3 ideas for developers (or anyone)

Telling stories with your Git history

Things we love 3

Building testable infrastructure with Chef, Test Kitchen and ServerSpec

Things we love 2

Things we love 1

How we made our “Like” button accessible for screen reader users

How we designed FutureLearn’s new course categories

Building our first pattern library

Creating a virtual tech learning hub to develop web skills

Design in the time of agile

Meet the Breakfast Club: taking online courses together at FutureLearn

How we told the story of our first year in numbers

For Ada Lovelace Day: the women who inspire us at FutureLearn

Today is our first birthday

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