Design Critique
Individual design ownership is an anti-pattern. The team owns the design, not the person who drew it. Design critiques is about learning together, increasing design quality and adhering to team decisions, not about individual competence or self-worth. Be kind, suggest improvements, help new team members. The design is shared and everyone is responsible for the quality.
Comparable to Code reviews
Books
Also see
- Design process
- How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
- GV Guide to Design Critique
- # Mastering Design Critiques
My notes
- Feedback is essential for healthy design Culture
- Giving and receiving good feedback is a hard skill
- Use formal critiques to jumpstart a change
- Make clear 1-page guidelines on what to focus, and how to give feedback
- Start in small groups,
Critique guidelines
- Be candid
- Be specific
- Tie everything to goals or roles or personas or tasks to be done
- Affirm what is working
- Help to analyze problems first - no need to suggest on solutions
- Suggestions - not design direction
- Have fun and learn