My kids and I were talking about doing our favorite things. My youngest would prefer to play Lego all day while my older son likes to lose himself in a “great book of adventure.” I got to thinking about what it is I like to do the most. The good [...]
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The most valuable investment you can make in people
If the most important invest you can make is not either trust or recognition then I’ll be a donut without a hole. Its not money or private bathrooms in the executive suite that attracts and motivates people. It’s letting them know your trust them to do the best thing for [...]
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The 5 year overnight PageRank success
This month our website achieved a 7/10 Google PageRank. That’s a ranking generally reserved for major media companies, Fortune 500 companies and A-list blogger, none of which describe Fresh Tilled Soil. So how does a small web design studio achieve a high PageRank? The answer is patience. We have been [...]
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Notes on Managing Different Subscription Levels on Web App Prototypes
Recently, we finished a major Web Prototyping project for a client building a project management application in the Creative space. The application has 3 different subscription levels: Free, Enhanced and Professional. Each level allows for increased functionality and features, and we agreed with the client that the best thing to [...]
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The Present Catches Up To Science Fiction
Remeber that cool touch screen that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report? Well it’s here. Watch the BIGVIZ INTERACTIVEA 30 second video demonstrating the use of multi-touch technology to display the idea sketches while they were being created on-site. This technology experiment, a collaboration between Autodesk and Perceptive Pixel at [...]
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MIT live sketch board
This is what happens when you leave a bunch of geeks in a room for too long. Now if only we could get this user interface experience in the classroom instead of just in the hands of MIT’s professors. Watch the whole video to get a sense of how smart [...]
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My Redux of the FedEx Home Page
This is my version of the FedEx home page without all the clutter and distraction. Give me the thing that I want – pick up or tracking. What else is there?
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GoDaddy design gets an overhaul
Making sense of the craziness that is GoDaddy’s home page wasn’t easy. I’m not even sure I captured the simplicity I was aiming for. I’ll let you be the judge of whether this design is any better than the current mess.
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Intuit QuickBooks Online Redesign Review
Whenever I look at a website or web application the first impression I receive always leaves a lasting mark. If the site has a funky color scheme or if I found the site using a search engine and the page it directs me to does not have the information easily [...]
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Desired GMail Contacts Feature
I’m a loyal Gmail user and Fresh Tilled Soil uses the GMail exchange server and we all love the service.. Well, except the ads, but that’s another conversation. In my contacts folder I have 1000+ contacts and numerous duplicates. It would take hours and days to merge all the duplicate [...]
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