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How well do you know your users? There's a good chance you don’t know your users as well as you think you do.

Cognitive bias can be a significant contributing factor to creating "blind-spots" with what your users really want and need.

Additionally, clients don’t always know to ask the right questions, and they often miss some important details that are hiding in plain sight.

Crow and Raven: So You Think You Know Your Users? Clients don’t always know to ask the right questions, and they often miss some important details that are hiding in plain sight.

User flows outline the steps that a user will take through your website or digital product in or complete a task or achieve a goal.

In the initial stages of a web development project, it’s important to both

1) Identify what these key tasks are, and
2) Outline them in separate documentation in order to ensure the information architecture and UX supports these key tasks in as few steps as possible.

Having trouble getting started with outlining user flows for your next digital project or website?

Learn more and download our free template here:

Crow and Raven: How to Outline User Flows to Support the Information Architecture User flows outline the steps within a path that a user will take in order to complete a task or achieve a goal.

Need to create a basic web design style guide, but not sure where to start?

Style guides can feel like a whole project in themselves, but sometimes you just need a simple style guide to accompany design layouts for a small to a medium-sized web project, that you can put together fairly quickly.

Style guides will not only help streamline the handoff from design to development but also help you easily extend the design to new pages without the expensive cost of mocking up each individual page.

Learn more about how to get started and download our free web design style guide template here:

Crow and Raven: How to Create a Basic Style Guide 
in Sketch There are numerous ways to create a digital style guide, but where do you start? Styleguides can feel like a whole proj

What is a Proto-persona?

Proto-personas are a modified version of personas that stimulate the same type of empathetic and user-oriented thinking, but with less investment in time.

Learn more and download our free template here:

Crow and Raven: Using Proto-Personas for Your Next
 Web Project What tools are available to help you think empathetically about your customer’s needs, goals, and challenges when using your next product? Proto-Personas are a

Denver's growing tech marketing, art, and design culture, and variety of UX resources make it a great place for UX Designers to consider calling home:

Crow and Raven: 8 Reasons Why Denver is a Great Place For UX Designers The tech industry in Denver has transformed in a matter of years, and companies that were once only known on the coasts are

CNR team photoshoot yesterday. This barn seems to be one of our standard props.

It seems like we're always having fun with our clients' work, and we never have time to work on our own stuff. However, we found some time, and we're happy to announce the launch of our new website. There are a few case studies on the new site that highlight what we've been up to lately. Enjoy. https://crowandraven.com

Product Design, Web Development, and User Experience Design - Crow and Raven

Check out the great work coming out of the UX Design Bootcamp this weekend at General Assembly Denver, taught by our Principal UX Designer, Liz Blasi. There were some great concepts coming out of the class, we had a great time!