A step-by-step tutorial that teaches you to code by building your own digital psychology experiments.
Follow our example, then adapt the patterns for your own research questions.
This is a learn-by-doing tutorial where you'll build a complete psychology experiment from start to finish. We provide working examples at each step, then guide you to create your own version for your research interest.
End Goal: You'll have a fully functional experiment that you designed, can modify, and can use to collect real research data.
Choose your research inspiration and prepare to create your own digital experiment.
Install the necessary tools and create your accounts to get started with web development.
Create a home for your project on GitHub and structure your files for success.
Create your own interactive experiment and deploy it locally for testing.
Implement structured data logging to save participant responses from your experiment.
Create a configuration interface to easily adjust your experiment's parameters.
Finalize your experiment's interactive elements, prepare it for deployment & start collecting data.
Analyze your collected data and create interesting visualizations.