Boston New Technology: Networking Night & Web Design with Steve Hickey #BNTech

Free event! Come network with Boston area developers and designers, and learn about Flexible Grid Systems with Steve Hickey, User Interface Designer & Front-End Developer at Fresh Tilled Soil!

Sponsored by:

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Mobinett Interactive (http://bit.ly/mobinett) is a strategy, design & development firm based in Cambridge, MA. With vast expertise in mobile, web and social technologies, Mobinett engages with customers to understand their vision, create a roadmap, design and bring awesome products to life! Products developed by Mobinett have launched across the world, received rave reviews in the media and are used by fortune 100 companies and startups. To learn more about what we do, visit www.mobinett.com (http://bit.ly/mobinett) or call 1-877-704-6662. Follow @mobinett (http://twitter.com/mobinett).

About the Web Design Workshop: Grid frameworks share some common problems: they’re clunky, hard to modify and rely upon presentational markup. But the power of Sass can save us from frameworks. We can design flexible grids, create efficient code and ditch presentational markup for good. Learn how to create your own flexible grid system!

About the Speaker: Steve Hickey is the User Interface Designer at Fresh Tilled Soil (http://bit.ly/XMx9KF) - a team of designers, coders and UX experts that helps entrepreneurs and businesses create bloody brilliant user experiences for web and mobile applications through consulting, education, training, and events. Originally educated in print design, Steve adopted the web as his chosen medium shortly after graduating from college. From a humble start coding marketing emails, he quickly moved into creating standards-compliant websites built with clean and semantic HTML, CSS, and jQuery. An unflappable master of his craft, Steve loves a good design challenge. His finger is always on the pulse of UI/UX advances, making him the go-to guy to find out what’s next in design innovation. Follow @SteveHickeyDsgn (https://twitter.com/stevehickeydsgn).

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Agenda:

6:30 to 7:30 - Networking & Dinner: Pizza provided by Mobinett Interactive (http://bit.ly/mobinett) and beverages provided by Microsoft New England

7:30 - Announcements

7:40 - Web Design Workshop: Flexible Grid Systems with Steve Hickey

8:30 - (Optional) Gather at the nearby Firebrand Saints (https://plus.google.com/118253374392744895384/about?gl=us&hl=en) for drinks and more networking

Directions & Parking:

Microsoft's building has a parking garage in the basement, which is $10 after 4 PM. MIT offers FREE parking in any non-gated lot (http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/locations.html) on campus after 5 PM. MIT's Hayward St Lot (http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P5&Parking=go) is the closest (park in the white spaces, not the yellow). Memorial Drive has free parking, but the spaces in front of NERD have a 1 hour limit. Other area streets have metered parking.

Public Transportation: Microsoft NERD is a 5 minute walk from the Kendall Square MBTA station on the Red Line.

Get directions & more info here (http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx).

Venue Sponsor:

Meeting space has been graciously provided by:

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Microsoft New England (http://bit.ly/UzIrRv) - The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) is a key part of a long term strategic investment by Microsoft to build a world class center for research and innovation right in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Follow @MSNewEngland (http://twitter.com/MSNewEngland) and join them on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftNewEngland). www.microsoftcambridge.com (http://bit.ly/UzIrRv)