Project · Lighthouse Labs · Product and content

Growing the 21 Day Coding Challenge

I led the creative refresh of Lighthouse Labs’ yearly JavaScript challenge, from research to the new visual identity, copy, and curriculum.

Client

Lighthouse Labs

When

November 2019

My role

Creative director and project manager

Result

78% participant increase

Overview

A free challenge that gets people coding

Lighthouse Labs is one of Canada’s leading coding bootcamps, turning beginners into full-stack developers with hands-on teaching.

The 21 Day Coding Challenge is its yearly learning initiative: people learn JavaScript over three weeks and compete for prizes. I oversaw the creative refresh of the challenge in November 2019.

What I did

  • User research and analysis
  • Creative direction and project management
  • New site design and content strategy
  • Complete copy overhaul
  • Partner promotion strategy
  • Curriculum design
  • Usability testing

The work

The new challenge site

Click a page to see all of it.

Home

What is the challenge?

About Lighthouse Labs

Practice

Prizes

Challenge map

+78%

more participants. The first refreshed run finished with 9,800 people, beating the previous best of 5,500.