Flatiron School
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We partnered with Flatiron school on projects touching their product, Learn.co, and their primary marketing website, flatironschool.com
Flatiron is the leader in programming education for “technically curious” individuals from all walks of life. Learn.co is their online campus, where students from around the world study and collaborate.
- Reduced CSS resource load times within Flatiron’s online campus software by 10x
- Created and documented an expansion strategy to allow new features to be built without causing code bloat. Trained internal developers.
- Designed, developed, and maintained a robust marketing site for the school
Flatiron School was growing fast, and their engineering team was building lots of new features. The CSS stylesheet library was growing linearly with every new feature written, becoming more and more complex over time, and therefore harder to maintain and slower for users to load. They needed a reset to make their developers’ lives easier while also improving performance for their students.
We created a new custom CSS framework for Learn.co, inspired by Nicole Sullivan’s OOCSS project. The philosophy allows for extensive code re-use, to the point where new pages can be created without writing any new CSS at all. Flatiron’s team can now build complex new features without touching the CSS, and their stylesheet loads up to 10x faster.
Our strong partnership led to Cantilever being tapped to design and build a new version of Flatiron’s website. The new site brought their incredible programming to life and made it easy to convert, while being tagged extensively so that marketing stakeholders were in full control.
- Reduced CSS resource load times within Flatiron’s online campus software by 10x
- Created and documented an expansion strategy to allow new features to be built without causing code bloat. Trained internal developers.
- Designed, developed, and maintained a robust marketing site for the school
With Cantilever, the relationship felt collaborative, like we were all oriented toward the same goal.
With Cantilever, the relationship felt collaborative, like we were all oriented toward the same goal.
