How to Give Your Product Design Process a Creative Boost Here at Fake Crow, we’re always looking at ways to improve our iterative design process. In order to accomplish big things with a small team, we have to leverage all of our resources as efficiently as possible, and this includes creativity. We’ve been running in-house …Continue Reading ››

How We Supercharged Our User Testing Using Mechanical Turk, Google Forms and Usability Hub. When working with startups we are often treading new ground on new products and it is important to begin validating assumptions early and often. It also helps to have some data to back up our design decisions when presenting them to …Continue Reading ››

Tasked to design a brand new pricing table for one of our startups, we went on a hunt to educate ourselves a little bit about the better practices out there. Naturally, we didn’t find the magic formula to building the ideal pricing table. The choices have to work with your specific product or service. Constructing your pricing model, and …Continue Reading ››

  JUST LAUNCHED: AN INTERACTIVE PERSONA CREATOR Xtensio is a toolbox to help you organize your thoughts, make decisions and present ideas. Learn more about the Persona Creator and other free tools at  xtensio.com     One of the benefits of working with lots of different startups is that when we discover something that works really great …Continue Reading ››

Design teams that handle user experience and user interface will know; when working on an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), we are often on tight deadlines, have limited resources, and a great need to test and iterate. At Fake Crow, we’ve been seeking a way to cut down the turnaround time between delivering UX elements and …Continue Reading ››

You are ready to move forward with your startup. You’ve done research, you’ve gotten familiar with the The Lean Startup principles and you are building a minimum viable product. At this stage, you may want to ask yourself: “What can I do while – or even before – building an MVP?”   Lets focus on …Continue Reading ››

While designing new UI comps for one of our clients, we were looking for stock images of popular travel destinations. The usual options are of course to buy stock images from libraries, or if there’s no budget for that, go to Creative Commons. Well, it turns out that Google recently added a new usage rights …Continue Reading ››