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Critique


Today

  • Goals of design critique.
  • How to take critique.
  • How to offer critique.
  • Practice.

Goals of Design Critique

Why is critique essential?


TODO


Giving & Taking Critique

  • I Like - constructive feedback is important
  • I Wish - framing negative feedback
  • What If - suggestions

Grounding Feedback

Understand audience.


What to Look For

Expressiveness

  • Prioritizes important information / Avoids false inferences
  • Consistent visual mappings (e.g., respect color mappings)
  • Make encodings meaningful rather than arbitrary

Effectiveness

Facilitates accurate decoding / Minimizes cognitive overhead Highlight elements of primary interest

Grouping / Sorting

Data Transformation

Non-Data Elements

  • Descriptive: Title, Label, Caption, Data Source, Annotations
  • Reference: Gridlines, Legend

Critique 1

TODO: something bad


Critique 2

TODO: something quite good


Critique 3

TODO: something with plenty to fix


Critique 4

TODO: something famous


Acknowledgements