{"id":447,"date":"2011-01-06T21:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2011-01-15T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T22:41:26","slug":"design-critiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Design critiques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been interested in how to shape a positive constructive culture of design critiques at Citrix. Not just &#8220;yeah it looks nice&#8221; but serious discussion, deeply focused on the aesthetics, but also functionality, information architecture, flow analysis, etc. All those aspects that interrelate and comprise the total user experience of a software product design. What&#8217;s the terminology to use, some baseline of concepts and approaches? Below are some links I&#8217;ve been studying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/essays\/23-how-to-run-a-design-critique\/\">Scott Berkun&#8217;s advice on how to run a design critique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/design-criticism-creative-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design Criticism and the Creative Process<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickerstudio.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/everything-ive-ever-learned-about-giving-design-critiques-i-learned-from-tim-gunn\/\">Lessons from Tim Gunn of Project Runway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uxbooth.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-design-critique\/\">Facilitating a useful design critique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfinch.com\/finch\/entry\/avoiding_the_uncanny_valley_of_interface_design\/\">Watch out for the &#8220;uncanny valley&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/interactions.acm.org\/content\/?p=1336\">Developing the mind for &#8220;design literacy&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been interested in how to shape a positive constructive culture of design critiques at Citrix. Not just &#8220;yeah it looks nice&#8221; but serious discussion, deeply focused on the aesthetics, but also functionality, information architecture, flow analysis, etc. All those aspects that interrelate and comprise the total user experience of a software product design. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Design critiques&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}