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Category: Web Design

Fresh Tilled Soil & Future M Present: The Future Of Web Apps >

We’re getting amped up for our Future M event next week! FTS Senior UI Designer, Mike Scopino, will be puttin’ on the ritz for the occasion.  Mike’s presenting on: “The More…


Logo Design, Google Style >

Google has a full time staff member whose job it is to create what they call “Google Doodles,” the custom Google logo designs that you frequently see on the Google More…


Why Gamification Isn’t About Fairies & Cupcakes >

 Gamification, implementing goals & rewards to encourage user engagement, has grown quickly and now seems to be at it’s peak of popularity. While gamification on the web was once just More…


Mass Challenge Event Recap: Design For Startups >

Last night downtown at the MassChallenge office space, Richard Banfield joined in-house Grasshopper web designer, Nick Johnson, & Thoughtbot designer, Phil LaPier, spreading their knowledge at the Design for Startups More…


Softbank Capital Redesign >

Something magical happened last night– the new Softbank Capital website launched.  The FTS team has been working with Softbank for quite some time now on their website redesign; this redesign More…


What Not To Web REMIX Event Recap >

For your own sake, I hope you weren’t so unfortunate as to have missed the What Not To Web REMIX Event last night, which we co-sponsored with MIT Enterprise Forum More…


Atlas Venture Website Redesign >

The Fresh Tilled Soil design team had the pleasure of redesigning Atlas Venture’s website this past winter.  You can see the dramatic transformation that the site underwent by checking out More…


Common Treatments for Notifications and Alerts in UI Design >

Recently we were asked by our clients to research all of the most effective ways that web applications were handling Notifications and Alerts and report back with the most common More…


‘The Fold’ Keeps Moving Further >

Great news for any web designer confronted with the concerns of clients who fear “the fold.” According to the W3C Schools, more than 85% of users are now on devices More…


Is Your Website Ready for the Mobile Web? >

Your website may offer a great user experience on a computer screen, but will it be easily accessible to visitors visiting your site on a smart phone or tablet device? More…


Abstracting CSS Styles for More Flexibility >

Here’s a post for all the front end code geeks out there. Recently I’ve been designing and coding a lot of web applications that have repeating elements like subheadings, form More…


Fresh Tilled Soil Donates 500 Trees to American Forests Just In Time For Earth Day 2011 >

Oh yeah– I believe I forgot to mention something awesome that happened at Fresh Tilled Soil last week, just in time for Earth Day 2011. We started a green initiative More…