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Feb 18, 2013 — Jan 31, 2014
Custom Group Training Sessions
While our core courses are described here, we also provide custom group training sessions to accommodate your team’s specific needs. Private group training takes place at your preferred time and location, …

Jun 22, 2013
UX for Developers @ Annual Drupal Design Camp
The 4th annual drupal design camp boston is the drupal community’s first camp dedicated to design. Each year 315+ drupalists gather to discuss ideas and take part in interactive sessions …
MIT Stata Center
Sep 11, 2013
Boston CHI Speaker Series @ Fresh Tilled Soil
BostonCHI is an organization of professionals from the New England area in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Fresh Tilled Soil is proud to sponsor the Boston CHI monthly talk series …
Fresh Tilled Soil
Nov 16, 2013
Human Neurophysiology & Design @ TEDxBeaconStreet
TEDxBeaconStreet is a conference which takes place in the Greater Boston area in November, with a focus on fascinating speakers, captivating adventures, and a cross-generational audience, all in the service …
The Lincoln School

Summer 2013 Semester

AUX: Now Accepting Applications!

The Fresh Tilled Soil Apprenticeship in UX turns promising designers and developers into all-round web & mobile product experts through intense, structured learning and real-world experience.

Jun 14, 2013
The Dirt – Apple and WWDC
With the recent Apple conference fresh on our brains, 3 fine young gentlemen site down to savagely discuss some of the news coming out of San Francisco this week. Steve …
Jun 12, 2013
The Dirt – An Internal Interview
Today on the show we have a very special guest… me… I’m the special guest. Mark and Steve interview me about a side project I’m working on. We talk about …
Jun 03, 2013
The Dirt – Jonas Sicking from Mozilla & Firefox OS
This week on The Life and Times of Steve Hickey, we sit down with Jonas Sicking of Mozilla. Jonas is the Tech Lead for Firefox OS out of the San …
May 24, 2013
The Dirt – Adam Grossman & Jay LaPorte from Dark Sky
This week, Mark and I jump on a Skype call with UX legends Adam Grossman and Jay LaPorte, creators of the well-famed iOS app, Dark Sky. These fine young men …

Dec 18, 2012
gridOverlay, a JS Plugin for Perfect Alignment
For the impatient, I’ll start off with the link: gridOverlay Javascript Plugin. Why We Built It The gridOverlay Plugin was built to solve a couple of problems. First and foremost, …
Nov 21, 2012
Managing Images in a Responsive Design
First things first: grab the library Over the past few months we’ve been about asset management in the browser and implementing responsive designs under the umbrella label of, “Environmental Design.” …
May 11, 2012
Jurassic Park Lorem Ipsum Generator
As much of our audience probably knows, designers often use Latin text commonly nicknamed “Lorem Ipsum” to show how typography will look within design layouts. Our Creative Director, Alex Fedorov, …
May 08, 2012
Champagne.js, A jQuery Plugin by Fresh Tilled Soil
Sarah Canieso recently developed a jQuery plugin called Champagne.js to provide a solution for a project she was working on for Perkstreet. (See how it’s used on the Perkstreet site …