This week on The Dirt we welcome Dudley Storey, instructor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, to defend the world of higher education in our ongoing series on education in the web profession. Join us as Dudley fills us in on…

Today on the show we take a look at our internal methods of professional development at Fresh Tilled Soil. Join us as we discuss our apprenticeship program, the now defunct FTS Labs program, designer/developer knowledge sharing, and the UXPert program. Follow The…

This week on the show Mark and I sit down with Treehouse Teacher and Co-host of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit to talk about the current state of education for aspiring Web designers & developers. We discuss the glaring holes in University…

Today on The Dirt we take a look at universal design, the idea of designing and building everything to be accessible to the broadest audience possible regardless of ability, means of access or other constraints that we as designers don’t control. Join…

Live at UX Fest! This week we do a special show in front of a live audience (just like the Cosby Show). We breakdown the concepts behind MVP, talk about how they have been bastardized over the past few years, and what…

This week on the show we sit down with Jeff Miller, the Experience Design Director at Foodler. Jeff gives us a look into the UX process inside Foodler as we discuss the differences between agencies and product companies. We also get a cool look…

This week on the show we sit down with the UX Fest workshopper, Steve Fisher. We discuss how creating conflict on a project can lead to a much better experience for the end users. Follow The Dirt on Twitter Listen to the…

Extending on our last episode, and Mark’s love of Apple, we dig into the UX & UI of the Watch we’ve all been talking about. We talk about positioning a product based on your audience vs. pivoting to explore a new target…

With the big announcement from Apple about new additions to the Apple family we discuss how the new larger screened devices affect the UX of a phone (poking at Android, of course) and how it relates to hammering home the importance of…

This week we sit down with Dave Levine, a UX Designer at Draft Kings (fantasy sports product), to talk about designing an experience in high distraction environments. Dave gives us insights into the UX process at Draft Kings and we discuss how…