The Dirt

On the heels of a great series, we step back a bit to remind ourselves how awesome our friend Steve Fisher is by pulling this classic episode from the archives. We discuss how creating conflict on a project can lead to a… The post From The Dirt Archive: Conflict is the Key to Great UX, with Steve Fisher appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

This week we sit down with SuperFriendly founder, Dan Mall. To close out our series on performance, we chat with Dan about building and implementing a performance budget. The budgeting design has been an important part of our work in delivering the… The post Performance, pt. 3: Designing with a Budget with Dan Mall of SuperFriendly appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

Today: a special super-sized episode of The Dirt featuring Colin Bendell, Director in the CTO Office at Akamai. In this wide-ranging discussion, we explore the performance implications of responsive design, the role of CDNs in major world events, and much, much more.… The post Performance, pt. 2: Edge-case Web Speed with Colin Bendell of Akamai appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

This week on the show, we sit down with Lara Hogan, the Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy and author of Designing for Performance. We chat about the importance of performance in experience design, how to get it into our design… The post Performance, pt. 1: Designing for Speed with Lara Hogan of Etsy appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

With the great news of our friend Jason Pamental coming on board here at Fresh Tilled Soil, we decided to re-release Jason’s episode on Responsive Typography. It originally aired on July 29, 2014 and has since been one of our most popular… The post From The Dirt Archive: Responsive Typography with Jason Pamental appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

For the fourth chapter in our series on Designing a Successful Product, we sit down with Mr. Brad Frost to discuss Atomic Design and creating visual systems. Brad takes us through the benefits of designing systems rather than individual pages. We chat about Pattern… The post Successful Product Design, pt. 4: Atomic Design with Brad Frost appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

This week, we sit down with Nir Eyal, the author of a book we all love, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir takes us through how to design a successful experience by getting your users to come back. We go into detail… The post Successful Product Design, pt. 3: Creating Habits with Nir Eyal appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

This week on the show we are humbled to sit down with, pillar of the design community, Paula Scher, Partner at Pentagram. We continue our series on designing a successful product with a conversation about the importance of branding. Paula has, in some way, affected… The post Successful Product Design, pt. 2: Branding with Paula Scher of Pentagram appeared first on Fresh Tilled Soil.

Boston’s record snowfall finally caught up with us! We’re taking a short breather to prepare a bunch of great new episodes. Today we’re republishing one of our favorites from our archive, which originally aired in July 2014. We’ll be back with a…

This week, we kick off a series about successful product design by sitting down with Samuel Hulick to chat about product onboarding. Samuel is the man behind useronboard.com and has done teardowns for all of our favorite apps, including Slack, Netflix, and Duolingo.…

For part 3 of our series on Experience Development, we sit down with Lead Front-end Developer at Shopify, Jonathan Snook. On this episode we talk about roles in Front-end Development and the importance in identifying the difference between “design implementation” and “application development”…

This week Steve and I get a chance to sit down with Jeremy Keith of Clearleft and talk about a topic that is very near and dear to our hearts: Progressive Enhancement. We clear up the common confusion between PE and a…

This week we kick off the start of a new series entitled Experience Development where we look at the coding side of UX. This week’s topic is: Universal Access. We sit down with the co-authors of Rosenfeld Media’s A Web for Everyone,…

In part 3 of our series entitled, Creating a Successful Product, we sit down with Erin Glenn, CEO at Alphaworks. Erin takes us through the all-important phase of any successful product: getting funded. We talk about classic funding models, kickstarter (crowdfunding), and…

In part 2 of our series entitled, Creating a Successful Product, we sit down with Tom & Dan from Studio Neat. Studio Neat is a design shop for physical and digital products. We chat with them about marketing, positioning and pricing a…