The Dirt

For this development-focused episode of The Dirt, I go off on one of our more epic ranks about how rampant misuse of front-end frameworks in production environments really grinds my […]

On this episode of The Dirt we lift up the hood of the iPhone 5s and discuss some of the new features available for improving experience design on the device. […]

In the latest chapter of The Dirt, Mark and I address the burning issue of Responsive Design vs. Mobile and how to recognize when Responsive Design isn’t the answer for […]

In this chapter of The Dirt, Mark and I discuss the recent news of the Twitter’s initial public offering. We talk about some of the history of Twitter and if […]

This is the third episode in a (currently) three part series we’re affectionately referring to as, “The Bizarro Series.” This week Steve takes the soapbox in discussing that designers need […]

On the news of Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer planning to step down, Mark couldn’t contain his glee, so we decided to record it and share with you fine people. In […]

After months of nagging, we finally convince Mark to say something negative about Apple. In this refreshing episode, “Bizarro Mark” argues about why you should buy an Android device. Steve […]

This week on the show, we talk about Responsive Design from an experience design standpoint, discussing if the amount of architecture involved to properly implement the design/development style is yielding […]

Today on the show we take to Quora and answer some UX questions. The 3 questions we tackled today are: Are lightboxes good UX? How do you explain User Experience […]

On this week’s show, Tim is missing and Mark and I take the opportunity to talk about craftsmanship and how much we don’t miss Tim. Mark then chastises Steve for […]

This week we’re very excited to have author, speaker, scholar, gentleman, Luke Wroblewski on the show to talk about happenings. Luke was in Boston for An Event Apart and was […]

Last week the folks from Dribbble came down to the Fresh Tilled Soil office for some Q&A, and we wanted to share the audio from that event… enjoy! Follow The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]