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# crema.us

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## Homepage

- [Crema |  A design & technology consultancy](/content/site-root.html): We're a design & technology consultancy building world-class digital experiences and teams. Proudly based in Kansas City. (269 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Running a 2.5 Hour Feature Sprint with a Startup Mobile App | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/running-a-2-5-hour-feature-sprint-with-a-startup-mobile-app.html): Justin Mertes walks through the 2.5 hour Feature Sprint that helped Vera identify their MVP and grow to be a mobile app with nearly 10K downloads. (2,963 words)
- [team/deric-mendez/index.html](/content/team/deric-mendez/index.html) (484 words)
- [team/neal-dyrkacz/index.html](/content/team/neal-dyrkacz/index.html) (562 words)
- [5-ways/index.html](/content/5-ways/index.html) (228 words)
- [craft-team/application-development/index.html](/content/craft-team/application-development/index.html) (930 words)
- [craft-team/product-management/index.html](/content/craft-team/product-management/index.html) (544 words)
- [How Machine Learning Made These Experiential Art Pieces Possible | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-machine-learning-made-these-experiential-art-pieces-possible.html): Learn how we used machine learning tools to create these experiential art pieces. Plus, instructions for how to replicate these projects and budget accordingly., Discover & share this accuse the hunchback of notre dame GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. (1,702 words)
- [venture-lab/index.html](/content/venture-lab/index.html) (299 words)
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- [Scoring the office with a Chatbot in Slack | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/scoring-the-office-with-a-chatbot-in-slack/index.html): Crema uses Slack for all internal communication. Learn how we built a Slackbot called Scorebot, and how it hit the front page of Product hunt in 2016. (2,108 words)
- [Custom Color Theme Switcher with Chakra UI & Semantic Tokens | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/make-a-custom-color-theme-switcher-with-chakra-ui-and-semantic-tokens.html): Discover how to enhance UX by creating color theme variations for visitors, allowing them to switch instantly, inspired by Slack's approach. (913 words)
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- [Should I Hire a Developer or Outsource? | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/should-i-hire-a-developer-or-outsource/index.html): Choosing between in-house development and outsourcing can be tough. We break down considerations to help you pick the best route for your needs. (2,672 words)
- [Product Teams: 8 Lessons Learned  | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/product-teams-lessons-learned/index.html): Learn from George Brooks about the 8 lessons he's learned creating & managing Crema's product teams, including diversifying, short sprints, and silos. (2,232 words)
- [expertise/exploratory/index.html](/content/expertise/exploratory/index.html) (628 words)
- [digital-product-agency/index.html](/content/digital-product-agency/index.html) (633 words)
- [The Best Prioritization Tools & Methods for Product Managers | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/the-best-prioritization-tools-methods-for-product-managers.html): Looking for more efficient ways to manage projects or teams in agency life? We’ve talked to our team of experienced product managers to learn more about the best tools and methodologies to lead cross-functional teams and keep everyone on pace with your product’s strategy. This article will discuss some of those top resources with pointers on how to most effectively use them. (916 words)
- [Experiencing & Responding to Failure as a Product Manager | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/experiencing-responding-to-failure-as-a-product-manager.html): Learn how you can respond to failure as a product manager, including the responses you can expect once you fess up to your mistakes and more. (2,523 words)
- [Crema.us](/content/capabilities/disruption-diligence/index.html): ... (229 words)
- [Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Digital Product Agency | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/questions-to-ask-a-digital-product-agency/index.html): Compile questions to ensure digital product agencies match promises. These queries help maximize initial conversations with sales. (1,262 words)
- [people-of-product/index.html](/content/people-of-product/index.html) (225 words)
- [Imaginary Product Experiences with a Future Focus | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/making-fake-product-experiences-with-glassmorphism-design-style.html): Client work often limits our designers' exploration of new styles and technologies. We challenged ourselves: What can we design in one day for a future use case? (1,088 words)
- [How Apps Are Built | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-apps-are-built/index.html): Explore how apps are created. This article covers the strategy, design, and development process of digital product agencies like ours. (2,073 words)
- [Growfish: Make Learning the Center of your Sprint Retros | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/growfish-make-learning-the-center-of-your-sprint-retros.html): Learn how Growfish can help you make learning the center of your Sprint Retros, including examples and our experience with it in the past. (1,220 words)
- [Explore Your Options for Custom Software | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-do-you-choose-the-right-partner-to-build-your-custom-software.html): Explore ways to enhance technology for your team and users. Improve communication, scale, or automate workflows for digital transformation success. (1,993 words)
- [Pitching Your Product Concept to Leadership | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/selling-to-leadership-gathering-proof-to-pitch-your-product-concept.html): Selling to leadership is a key skill that drives change and career growth. Learn to pitch digital initiatives confidently in a non-tech environment. (1,636 words)
- [Tapping Into Your Agency's Collective Genius | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/tapping-into-your-agencys-collective-genius/index.html): Unlock your agency's potential by leveraging broad experience to meet your needs. Transform your business with expert agency collaboration. (1,277 words)
- [How to Prep for a Design Sprint (Designer’s POV) | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-to-prep-for-a-design-sprint-designers-pov/index.html): Learn how you can prepare for a design sprint as a designer, including your role in the process, what to expect and ways to practice beforehand. (1,485 words)
- [The Better Bets Canvas for Product Leaders | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/the-better-bets-canvas-for-product-leaders/index.html): Discover the Better Bets Canvas, a tool inspired by Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets, helping product leaders tackle everyday challenges effectively. (914 words)
- [How to Write User Stories  | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-to-write-user-stories/index.html): Learn what user stories are and how to write user stories, including testing instructions & verification, reference a & considerations, and acceptance criteria. (1,838 words)
- [Results-Based Culture: Better Employees & Happier People | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/results-based-culture-making-better-employees-happier-people.html): We often get asked about our company culture. Crema Test Engineer Ashley Holbrook shares how our results-based culture positively impacts her work and life. (1,301 words)
- [team/tucker-sauer-pivonka/index.html](/content/team/tucker-sauer-pivonka/index.html) (265 words)
- [Intro to UI Design in Sketch | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/intro-to-ui-design-in-sketch/index.html): Learn the basics of UI design in Sketch, including getting started with the art-board, using inspector to manipulate shapes, staying organized and more. (1,113 words)
- [Resiliency in a Pandemic: Preparing Leaders for the Worst | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/resiliency-loves-a-pandemic-how-leaders-can-prep-for-the-worst.html): Resilience transforms work and life. Crema's Laura Artman shares how to build resilient teams for a hopeful future. (921 words)
- [Stepping Into Product Ownership as a Product Designer | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/stepping-into-product-ownership-as-a-product-designer.html): As the UX discipline evolved, more product designers are becoming product owners or business analysts. Is a designer right for the product owner role? (900 words)
- [Increase Code Quality with TypeScript | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/increase-quality-of-your-code-with-typescript/index.html): Our software dev team has been using JavaScript frameworks for years to build digital products, whether for our clients or ourselves. One of the best ways for us to up our JavaScript productivity is by leveraging languages like TypeScript to help ensure that our code is quality. TypeScript offers a lot of benefits that we’ll break down in detail. Here are the benefits that we'll cover: reduces cognitive overhead, increases code quality, provides a single source of truth, frees up part of your mind to solve logic or UI problems. (845 words)
- [Is the GRANDstack Grand? (Pt. 1) | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/is-the-grandstack-grand-pt-1/index.html): In this series, Senior App Developer Trevor talks about some pros and cons to using the GRANDstack, as well as what it is and when it should be used. (741 words)
- [NORTH Canvas: A Template for Navigating Change | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/north-canvas-a-template-for-navigating-change/index.html): Your team's North Star is an aid to understand your position and set your instruments. Learn to calibrate your team for the journey with this template. (338 words)
- [Have We Taken “Friendly UI” Too Far? | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/have-we-taken-friendly-ui-too-far/index.html): Friendly UI is taking the design world by storm, leading to playful interface designs with mixed reactions, aiming to enhance accessibility and broaden appeal. (675 words)
- [Our Sprint Framework | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/our-sprint-framework/index.html): Unleash the Sprint. Learn how to tackle agile sprint planning, explore our sprint planning template and figure out the sprint timeline that works best for you. (780 words)
- [Lessons Learned in Augmented Reality | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/lessons-learned-creating-an-augmented-reality-experience.html): Creating Augmented Reality experiences is fun; Crema made a holiday-themed filter, learned scene-switching, faced file corruption, and gained valuable lessons. (1,117 words)
- [Occidental Management Chooses Crema for Aspiria Partner | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/occidental-management-chooses-crema-for-aspiria-tech-partner.html): Occidental Management and Crema partner to create a digitally connected campus, offering online food ordering, conference reservations, fitness classes, and more. (315 words)
- [How Agile Kills Innovation | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-agile-kills-innovation/index.html): Exploring how relentless innovation may impact the best product-building methods in tech, challenging the belief that the most innovative are always the best. (741 words)
- [Loom Security Partners With Crema to Build Next-Gen Security Platform | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/loom-security-partners-with-crema-to-build-next-gen-security-platform.html): Crema partners with startup Loom Security to build a game-changing security platform that turns technical alerts into business-focused insights using AI and persona-based analysis for modern security teams. Pictured here are product team members like Christine Pivovar and Lynn Stoltz. (348 words)
- [How to Lead Your Team with Multipliers Principles: Be a Liberator | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/how-to-lead-your-team-with-multipliers-principles-be-a-liberator.html): Learn what being a 'Liberator' means at Crema. Plus ,how our product managers create space, demand best work, and generate rapid learning cycles. (482 words)
- [App Design Expedited: A 1-Day Design Challenge | Crema | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/app-design-expedited-the-story-of-a-1-day-design-challenge.html): In June 2020, Crema's digital designers took on a remote 1-day design challenge, creating unique app UI screens in just 7 hours with astonishing results. (1,819 words)
- [Crema is an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace for 2023 | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/inc-magazine-best-workplace-2023/index.html): Kansas City-based Crema lands on Inc. Magazine Best Workplaces list again, honoring top workplaces with remarkable cultures and employee benefits. (370 words)
- [Collaborating Effectively as a Remote Workforce | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/collaborating-effectively-as-a-remote-workforce/index.html): Learn how to collaborate effectively as a remote workforce, including tools to leverage, activities to make remote team members feel included, and more. (2,031 words)
- [Global Orphan Project Hires Crema for UX Audit | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/in-preparation-for-international-expansion-global-orphan-project-enlists-crema-to-perform-ux-audit.html): Crema & Global Orphan Project partner to enhance CarePortal's UX, boosting impact for 125,000 children and scaling to the global market with local partnerships. (287 words)
- [Do You Really Need to Build That Product? (With a Free Miro Exercise) | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/do-you-really-need-to-build-that/index.html): Learn about how to evaluate software investment decisions using a strategic core/support/peripheral framework. A real-world case study of how one company saved hundreds of thousands in software development costs. (1,584 words)
- [Design Library: Small Decisions, Big Impact | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/design-library-small-decisions-big-impact/index.html): Learn how small decision with your design library can have a big impact, including well balanced icons, type hierarchy, & round corner vs sharp edges. (1,461 words)
- [How to Tackle Hard Conversations as a Product Manager | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/doing-hard-things-why-is-it-so-hard-to-do-well/index.html): Learn to ease your life as a product manager by tackling hard conversations effectively. Discover why these discussions are so challenging! (820 words)
- [Burned by Your Last Software Project? It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.  | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/burned-by-your-last-software-project/index.html): Unfortunately, we know agencies don’t always deliver on what they say they’re going to do. Here's how we ensure the client/agency relationship remains positive. (1,473 words)
- [Can Miro Be Used for Product Management? | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/can-miro-be-used-for-project-management-a-comprehensive-guide-for-leveraging-miro-as-a-product-manager.html): Yes, you can use Miro for project management. This article explains why it's great, when to use it, how to use it, and key implementation tips. (1,355 words)
- [Digital Generosity Pt. 3: Generosity Towards the World  | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/digital-generosity-pt-3-generosity-towards-the-world.html): Explore using technology to better the world by solving universal problems and understanding digital generosity versus social responsibility. (933 words)
- [Agency Scar Tissue: How To Heal From Failed "Digital Transformations" | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/agency-scar-tissue-why-digital-transformations-fail-and-how-to-heal-the-wounds.html): Agency scar tissue is the lingering damage left by failed digital initiatives. Learn why transformations flop and how to heal the wounds through things like redefined success, iterative delivery, and change management that puts people first. Digital transformation is a collaborative sport that requires bringing your full team onto the field. (653 words)
- [Exploratory-as-a-Service | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/exploratory-as-a-service/index.html): Many teams aren't ready to build or realize opportunities. There's hard work before product creation, and not all teams engage in this exploratory work. (620 words)
- [Everything You Need to Know About Craft Teams | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-craft-teams/index.html): Learn what a craft team is, the importance of having both a product team and craft team, & how we help craft teams grow at Crema. Improve your product culture! (841 words)
- [Terms of use](/content/terms-of-use/index.html): ... (3,092 words)
- [Design Prototyping Early & Often | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/design-prototyping-early-and-often/index.html): Feedback from a prototype is the best route to learn users’ expectations and needs. Read why you should be design prototyping early and often. (902 words)
- [Atomic Habits for Product Teams: A Book Review of Atomic Habits | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/atomic-habits-for-product-teams-a-book-review-of-atomic-habits.html): Learn why Atomic Habits by James Clear is such a great book to help product teams to develop consistent habits that keep the project moving forward. (827 words)
- [Crema Teams Up With High Aspirations for a Tech Discovery Mission to Empower Tomorrow's Leaders | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-teams-up-with-high-aspirations/index.html): High Aspirations has partnered with Crema to conduct a technology discovery exercise that will shape the future of community engagement for their youth mentorship program. (330 words)
- [Crema in Clutch’s Top 1000 Global Companies for 2 Years | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-ranked-among-clutchs-top-1000-global-companies-2-years-running.html): In Dec 2022, Crema was named a top 1000 global B2B service provider on Clutch, honoring the top 1% of companies across various industries. (360 words)
- [Crema Kicks Off UX Audit With Big Blue Swim School | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-kicks-off-ux-audit-with-big-blue-swim-school/index.html): Crema, a design & tech consultancy in KC, partners with Big Blue Swim School to audit digital experiences for better targeting and conversion during growth. (480 words)
- [Crema Is An Official Miro Solution Partner | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-is-now-an-official-miro-solution-partner/index.html): When Miro launched its Solution Partner Program and invited us to participate, we jumped at the opportunity. So we’re excited to announce that Crema is now an official Miro Solution Partner. Consider us Mirophiles who finally have a closer relationship with a team building something we genuinely love. (412 words)
- [AI Isn’t a Tech Problem - It’s a Change Management Problem | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/ai-isnt-a-tech-problem-its-a-change-management-problem.html): ‍There’s a quiet revelation unfolding in organizations today - and it’s not just about technology. It’s about leadership, culture, and how ready we are to lead through ambiguity. (442 words)
- [Crema Named Top Custom Software Developer by Clutch | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-named-top-software-developer-by-clutch/index.html): Crema was listed by Clutch as the top software developer and #2 B2B Provider in Missouri. We’re humbled by this recognition and thrilled with the accolade. (301 words)
- [Crema Becomes a HumanCulture.ai Member | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-becomes-a-humanculture-ai-member/index.html): As of July 2026, Crema is proud to announce membership with HumanCulture.ai. The membership gives our team access to the Human-AI Index™, a proprietary diagnostic that measures how AI is being adopted, experienced, and understood across a workforce. In addition, we are given materials and access to HumanCulture Workshops™, leadership alignment tools, and a community of organizations committed to a human-centered AI future. (484 words)
- [industries/fintech-software-development/index.html](/content/industries/fintech-software-development/index.html) (1,067 words)
- [Better Pre-Con Tech Leads to 52% Profitability Boost | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/better-pre-con-tech-leads-to-52-profitability-boost.html): With 38% of contractors satisfied with current tools, the industry faces issues in collaboration and data, causing inefficiencies and missed opportunities. (357 words)
- [Crema's Logo Featured on DesignRush: "The Best Software Companies Logo Design" | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/cremas-logo-featured-on-design-rush-the-best-software-companies-logo-design.html): In January of 2023, Crema was honored to be featured in an article on DesignRush's "The Best Software Companies Logo Designs" on the Best Designs Trends page. (235 words)
- [Crema & ArtsKC Launch New Pilot Program | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/crema-partners-with-artskc-to-support-the-launch-of-its-latest-pilot-program.html): Crema partnered with ArtsKC to launch The Drop, creating a seamless ecosystem for arts and culture communities and participating organizations. (439 words)
- [industries/cybersecurity-software-development/index.html](/content/industries/cybersecurity-software-development/index.html) (925 words)
- [industries/insurtech-software-development/index.html](/content/industries/insurtech-software-development/index.html) (796 words)
- [AdamsGabbert & Crema Automate Accounts Payable, Save Money | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/adamsgabbert-and-crema-partner-to-automate-accounts-payable-headaches-and-save-businesses-money.html): Crema and AdamsGabbert partner to streamline accounts payable, optimizing processes like invoice processing, data capture, and purchase order matching. (329 words)
- [Custom Software for AEC Firms | Product Strategy & Innovation](/content/industry/construction/index.html): Custom software solutions for construction, architecture, and engineering firms. Data integration, process automation, and collaboration tools built for AEC. (559 words)
- [AI Perspective](/content/ai/index.html): Equip your product team with a prioritized list of action items. Boost engagement, modernize your product, and prepare your software for growth., Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces. (1,356 words)
- [insights/index.html](/content/insights/index.html) (346 words)
- [Who Sets the Definition of ‘Done’ in an Agile Product Team?  | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/who-sets-the-definition-of-done-in-an-agile-product-team.html): Learn about who sets the definition of done in an Agile Product Team, including how each craft team contributes and where the role of the client plays in. (4,980 words)
- [services/index.html](/content/services/index.html) (908 words)
- [A Fresh Take on The Learning Process: The Adaptive Loop | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/a-fresh-take-on-the-learning-process-the-adaptive-loop.html): Discover how to build a passionate learning team through a continuous loop of attention, testing, and reflection. Explore our learning and adaptation approach. (2,713 words)
- [Privacy Policy](/content/privacy-policy/index.html): ... (3,474 words)
- [craft-team/product-design/index.html](/content/craft-team/product-design/index.html) (929 words)
- [Custom Software for Cybersecurity | Product Strategy & Innovation](/content/industry/cybersecurity/index.html): We help cybersecurity firms apply their unique domain expertise to tasteful product experiences that scale (934 words)
- [5 Steps to Becoming a Confident Design Sprint Facilitator | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/5-steps-to-becoming-a-confident-design-sprint-facilitator.html): Product Manager and Design Sprint Facilitator Justin Mertes outlines the 5 steps to becoming a confident design sprint facilitator based on his experience. (1,859 words)
- [Facilitator's Guide to a Virtual, Global Design Sprint | Crema | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/a-facilitators-guide-to-a-virtual-global-design-sprint.html): Discover our 6-day remote Design Sprint with the Kudelski team: tools used, process overview, and working across three time zones. (1,452 words)
- [The Future of PM: Process Takes a Backseat | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/the-future-of-pm-process-take-a-backseat/index.html): Crema Senior Product Manager Michael Luchen shares what he thinks is the future of product management. Hint: Expect process and tooling to take a backseat. (3,411 words)
- [craft-team/testing/index.html](/content/craft-team/testing/index.html) (892 words)
- [Custom Fintech Solutions | Product Strategy & Innovation](/content/industry/finance/index.html): We help finance companies design products people trust with their capital (1,135 words)
- [Working with Form: A Long-Awaited Milestone | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/working-with-form-a-long-awaited-milestone/index.html): Dan Linhart talks about Crema's engagement with Form and the valuable insights we gained about Crema's vision, marketing initiatives, and plans for the future. (1,549 words)
- [Workflow Management: A Guide To Mastering Your Product Delivery | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/workflow-management-a-guide-to-mastering-your-product-delivery.html): Workflows can make processes transparent and help ensure products are built in a way that works best for the needs of the whole team. Learn we leverage them! (1,423 words)
- [3 Easy Steps to Create Percentage Circles and Pie Charts in Sketch | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/3-easy-steps-to-create-percentage-circles-and-pie-charts-in-sketch.html): Graphs can be a complex design challenge for UI designers. Learn how to make percentage circles or a pie chart in Sketch with these 3 easy steps! (1,014 words)
- [AdamsGabbert  |  Exploring a Promising Opportunity for the Automation of Accounts Payable](/content/case-study/adamsgabbert/index.html): AdamsGabbert | IT Consulting (970 words)
- [Solarhood  |  Testing the Solar Market on Mobile and Web](/content/case-study/solarhood/index.html): Solarhood | Product branding, prototyping, user testing and validation, web and mobile development (2,002 words)
- [George Brooks | Founder / CEO  | Crema](/content/team/george-brooks/index.html): George Brooks is the CEO & Founder of Crema, an award-winning design & technology consultancy based in Kansas City, Missouri. He’s spent the past decade growing and evolving the company, which started as an operation in the second bedroom of his home and has now grown to a renowned midwest tech agency serving Fortune 500 companies and funded startups across the world. (617 words)
- [2 Tools We Built: Why You Should Create Internal Products | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/2-tools-we-built-for-ourselves-why-you-should-create-internal-products.html): At Crema, we build custom digital products to fit specific needs. Here are two lightweight internal tools we created to meet our own needs. (1,476 words)
- [Case Studies | Crema | A Design & Technology Consultancy](/content/case-study/index.html): Read our client success stories. We've helped funded startups and global enterprises launch successful digital products, create design systems, test assumptions, improve their product culture, and more. (256 words)
- [Careers | Crema](/content/careers/index.html): Crema's results-based culture gives you the flexibility to complete your work when and where you want. Explore careers in design, development, and more. (723 words)
- [Beazley Security | Case Study](/content/case-studies/beazley-security/index.html): Beazley Security solicited Crema to help them scale the delivery of cutting edge security and incident response services. Cybersecurity client design and development project. Typescript, React, Python, FastAPI, Auth0., Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily – and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces. (567 words)
- [Evolve Security](/content/case-studies/evolve-security/index.html): Evolve engaged Crema to rapidly modernize their product's design, kicking off with a focused design sprint to identify the highest-impact opportunities and move quickly into a product redesign. (696 words)
- [LendKey | Case Study](/content/case-studies/lendkey/index.html): How Crema built a self-serve VA education benefits calculator for LendKey, helping veterans navigate complex benefits and identify funding gaps. (927 words)
- [2020 Design Sprint Retrospective | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/2020-design-sprint-retrospective/index.html): Our experts share insights on design sprints, discussing client value, challenges, and takeaways from their experiences. (1,105 words)
- [Cookie Policy](/content/cookie-policy/index.html): ... (1,813 words)
- [Why M&A’s in Tech Often Fail | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/why-mergers-and-acquisitions-in-tech-often-fail/index.html): Merging companies is hard. It’s a challenge for culture, brand, and technology. But it can be successful if you’re prepared. (1,984 words)
- [6 Reasons Entrepreneurs Make for Great Product Managers | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/6-reasons-entrepreneurs-make-for-great-product-managers.html): Here are 6 reasons why entrepreneurs make for great product managers, and why you might want to become an “Entrepreneur Product Manager." (1,089 words)
- [9 Magical Chrome Extensions for QA Testing | Blog | Crema](/content/blog/9-magical-chrome-extensions-for-qa-testing/index.html): Looking for QA testing tools? These 9 Chrome extensions aid in testing, writing better bugs, and covering more exploratory ground. Plus, some free tools! (742 words)
- [Service | Product Practice](/content/services/service-product-practice/index.html): A strategic initiative that empowers your people with the current insights, skills, and tools needed to excel in product development today. (741 words)
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