Making Change.org

At some companies, user research is a lot like flossing: we know it’s good for us but we aren’t doing it enough. Here at Change, we floss all the time - and we make sure to floss together.  ...

https://making.change.org/post/122290324332

After a long hiatus, we finally put up the video we recorded at the SF JavaScript meetup on RendrJS. Watch Josh Callender and Mark Dimas from our Platform team talk about why we use Rendr, how ...

https://making.change.org/post/103573061842

We’re partnering with the SF JavaScript Meetup group to gather all Rendr enthusiasts. Spike Brehm (@spikebrehm ), who developed Rendr for Airbnb, will start off by talking about the impetus f...

https://making.change.org/post/97089434307

We use online surveys on our website to learn our users and their goals, identify areas for improvement, and measure user satisfaction. Also, by surveying users, we can test content, information,...

https://making.change.org/post/91198548417

Following our recent launch of the Decision Makers feature, decision makers are better equipped than ever to respond and work with petition creators to help improve their circumstances.  Helping...

https://making.change.org/post/69092404340

I’m a bit sentimental. Perhaps that’s not the best way to be in an industry where just about everything is etherial and temporary. Over the years I figure that most of what I’ve created has...

https://making.change.org/post/74762918311

You probably already recognize the value of user research—testing your product with users can confirm suspicions, illuminate difficult interactions, and even spur new product ideas. (Not convin...

https://making.change.org/post/69525715907

I remember the olden days of change.org, back when we were a four-person engineering team at a company that hadn’t yet figured out whether it wanted to be a blog or a platform for petitions. ...

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MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS BUT DON’T LET THEM GET TO PRODUCTION We had the pleasure of attending Mobile Developer Day at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters. Parse and it’s tools were the ...

https://making.change.org/post/70447415097

We’ve standardized on using promises to manage most of the asynchronous interactions in our JavaScript codebase. In addition to really enjoying the extra expressiveness and aggregation possibil...

https://making.change.org/post/69613524472

Dian Andamari Rosanti Tjandrawinata* just joined Change.org as a Product Manager. Previously, Dian was at Flipboard, where she worked on both mobile and web products (and a ton of localization). ...

https://making.change.org/post/68824072268

Bob Tucker is our new Infrastructure Engineer. Bob joins us from BazaarVoice/PowerReviews where he was a Senior DevOps Engineer. He lives in Oakland with his dog Hiro, an Asteroids machine and an...

https://making.change.org/post/67408236058

Ernest hails from a sleepy little town just south of SF called Los Angeles. Previously, Ernest was awesome-izing the moviegoing experience as a designer at Fandango. Like Chelsea, Ernest made hi...

https://making.change.org/post/64036830485

Last week I gave a talk at Data Week  held here in San Francisco at Fort Mason: “ETL Validation with Cascading on Elastic MapReduce” (hey, I’m an engineer not a copy-writer!). It focused ...

https://making.change.org/post/63566420960

Wilson joins the Product Team at Change.org from Yammer - an enterprise social network where he was a Product Manager. In his varied past, Wilson co-founded a social enterprise in Uganda sellin...

https://making.change.org/post/62994147407

It’s a really special day when your small website grows up and starts having to deal with large amounts of data and the challenges that come with it. We have recently begun to experience some...

https://making.change.org/post/62926452118

Chelsea comes to Change through the DesignerFund Bridge program and previously crafted user experiences for TaskRabbit and WordPress.com.  One of her missions in life is to design behavior for ...

https://making.change.org/post/62886149301

Jasmine joins the Change team as a new software engineer. After living in too many different places (Taiwan, Japan, Philadelphia, Hong Kong), she has finally settled in San Francisco as her new...

https://making.change.org/post/60873137620

HOW CASUAL USER INTERVIEWS AFFECTED OUR PETITION CREATION DESIGN CONCEPT In the past year, I have been designing a new petition creation and management experience on Change.org. For a site that ...

https://making.change.org/post/59543018645

Praneeta is a recent addition to the Change.org team. After working for a year and half in a small start-up in Charlotte, NC, Praneeta has now moved to California to join our team in San Franci...

https://making.change.org/post/58340435553