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A center of gravity for all things geeky and wonderful – industry talks, workshops, inspiring speakers and provocative articles.

labs

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Customize a Lab for Your Group

We are now offering custom LABS courses that are tailored to your group's needs and level of experience.

  1. Custom Lab Offering
    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,


presents

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  1. designfdrupal
    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
  2. chi
    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
  3. ted
    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

Apprentices

    1. 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.


podcast

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  1. The Dirt, Pugilistic User 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
  2. The Dirt, Pugilistic User Experience
    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
  3. The Dirt, Pugilistic User Experience
    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
  4. Two women fighting over an orange
    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

resources

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  1. A demo of the gridOverlay plugin at work.
    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,
  2. A code snippet from the Manage JS library
    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.”
  3. jp_gen
    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,
  4. champagne
    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