For a state where design innovation is the buzzword of the decade, the feedback system on design here is quite a failure. I’m graduating from my Masters program in Design this week in San Francisco. And I’m appalled at how bad most of our faculty has been at giving feedback and critique on our work. When I placed this concern before them, I was simply told “this is how it works in California!” On a really good day you’ll get sandwiched feedback starting and ending with a good point, and critique and points of improvement in the middle. On a regular day, you’ll get feedback like a two year old getting a pat on the back even if your work is shyte. And I feel that this has grave consequences because when the same students enter the industry they realise how far behind their project quality is than other people’s. I’m really hoping this is not how it works in the industry where there are businesses at stake. (Although I got a taste of it during my internship with a fairly new tech startup recently- everyone was super nice about design feedback upfront, while their business suffered huge losses due to this politeness.)
Any designers who feel the same way or beg to differ? Would love to know your views.
Great design resource
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Submitted August 08, 2018 at 12:02AM by potato-stick https://ift.tt/2vy30KP
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