Sometimes, what you see is not quite the same to what everybody else sees. It's alright, it happens, don't worry, we just have to we aware of this.
Our vision of... pretty much everything, is influence by our experience, our emotional state, our point of view, and probably what we just ate.
So, in order to understand if our solution, if our particular design is relevant or appropriate it is often not enough to consider our vision as the final proof of validation. It's important and almost crucial to understand that a design is not done until I had it observed and positively criticized by a fellow designer, or just a fellow.
The important thing here is to engage into a healthy and argumental discussion. Not a discussion about likes or dis-likes (well... just a little bit) but a discussion about the elements of the design and what they evoke.
Let's say that your project was to create a graphic piece that would communicate an event to an aduience, and you choose to simply write the text on a white font on a very light yellow background (you see where I'm going with this).
It would be easy for any designer to say: "I like it" or "I hate it", but the right way to engage in critisism would be to start asking questions such as: "who is going to read this?" "where is this going to be placed?" "how long will this be up?", etc. After that, you can certainly throw some arguments like: "well... if this is the only mean for communication and you want it to be popular, and the audience will only look at it for a second on that hall.. then, maybe it would be more effective if you add more contrast to it, maybe changing the background color, or the font color, that will bring more contrast and visibility to the content".
The truth is that 80% of our conversations and critics are not smooth nor healthy, and our personalities and egos are often hurten... that's another story that we'll have to deal with. But, there is true in the fact that even with unsolicited and negative critics, we need to "publish" our work to our colleagues before we publish it to everybody else (clients and the world).
It's an important habit that will change the way we see our solutions, that will shape the way that we interact with our community and that will push us in the right direction: Empathy!
Our vision of... pretty much everything, is influence by our experience, our emotional state, our point of view, and probably what we just ate.
So, in order to understand if our solution, if our particular design is relevant or appropriate it is often not enough to consider our vision as the final proof of validation. It's important and almost crucial to understand that a design is not done until I had it observed and positively criticized by a fellow designer, or just a fellow.
The important thing here is to engage into a healthy and argumental discussion. Not a discussion about likes or dis-likes (well... just a little bit) but a discussion about the elements of the design and what they evoke.
Let's say that your project was to create a graphic piece that would communicate an event to an aduience, and you choose to simply write the text on a white font on a very light yellow background (you see where I'm going with this).
It would be easy for any designer to say: "I like it" or "I hate it", but the right way to engage in critisism would be to start asking questions such as: "who is going to read this?" "where is this going to be placed?" "how long will this be up?", etc. After that, you can certainly throw some arguments like: "well... if this is the only mean for communication and you want it to be popular, and the audience will only look at it for a second on that hall.. then, maybe it would be more effective if you add more contrast to it, maybe changing the background color, or the font color, that will bring more contrast and visibility to the content".
The truth is that 80% of our conversations and critics are not smooth nor healthy, and our personalities and egos are often hurten... that's another story that we'll have to deal with. But, there is true in the fact that even with unsolicited and negative critics, we need to "publish" our work to our colleagues before we publish it to everybody else (clients and the world).
It's an important habit that will change the way we see our solutions, that will shape the way that we interact with our community and that will push us in the right direction: Empathy!
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