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Increasing social interaction and participation in the community. Alex: If it becomes more valuable to put your work on CodePen because it is highly visible-resulting in users finding better work/becoming more influential.Users associating CodePen with good design/UX. Tim: Important people in community expressing positivity about the site.Here are some of their takeaways when asked what would make this project successful: Knowing their priorities directly influenced the scripts we used in our user interviews. This was exactly what we were after-a jumping off point. When talking to the three of them, there were definitely some common themes emerging.

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We used Google Hangouts to talk with the team (a free and easy way to talk with anyone face-to-face).

This helped us to not only know where their heads were at for their future, but it also showed us quite varied perspectives on what CodePen means to them. We sat down with them (well, we sat down at our respective monitors) to see what they were hoping to get out of our engagement. The very first thing we did was just get to know the guys at CodePen a little better. It was important to include stakeholder input, so we knew where to focus our efforts and discussions when we talked to users. As we both work in the same industry and many of CodePen's users are our peers, we wanted to make sure we included as much input from the community as we could. There are so many power-user features we weren't even aware of, and it is quite a robust product that we needed to gain perspective on. We began the project with a thorough research phase to gain a complete understanding of CodePen. And thus, we began tackling an extremely fun design challenge. After several conversations, the natural evolution of combining forces for an amazing redesign made sense.

We've laughed together at conferences, and Sparkboxers are huge fans of CodePen as a product. Sparkbox and CodePen have had many awesome conversations over the years.