How To Run A UI Design Critique

"“HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT SOLUTION?”
A great place to start any critique or conversation is to ask the designer how — not why — they did something. Asking why immediately puts them on the defensive, while asking how invites exploration of the concept’s origin without the need for justification.

“Why” questions push us towards trying to prove something is “true,” rather than explaining it as one possibility."

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How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine

Design critiques are an important part of any product exploration. A good design critique is meant to explore the design, find where it is working and where it could be improved. If done well, design critiques allow everyone on the team to feel as if they have been heard and allow clients to give valuable feedback. In an agile environment, you will often have coders, project managers, product managers and people from other disciplines sitting in to give feedback, and you need to know how to quickly get them up to speed on the expectations if you want to get anywhere fast.

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