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Coursera: Our New Front Page: So Fresh and So Clean!
Editor’s Note: Coursera’s Lead Student Team Engineer Pamela Fox shares her reflections on our front page’s new look!I joined Coursera wayyyyy back in the day, almost a year ago, and I remember my first project was to redesign our front page in anticipation of our upcoming growth from 4 to 17 universities. So many! How would we showcase them all?! But hey, I figured it out and we moved on. We’ve grown quite a bit since then and we’re now up to 62 universities and 320+ courses, plus we’ve added the options for Signature Track and ACE, all the while managing never to upgrade our poor year-old front page. By the time we realized it was high time for renovation, it was quite the “fixer-upper.” With the combined efforts of our designer Payam, our prolific intern Marc, and our newest full-time web engineer Josh, we crafted a new front page and browsing experience. Our new front page includes: • A prominent search box, which takes pote…