UIE Virtual Seminar – Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation

Jared Spool

August 19th, 2008

We’ve got a unique and exciting UIE Virtual Seminar coming up in September:

Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation
Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Time: 1pm ET / Noon CT / 11am MT / 10am PT

When looking over someone else’s design, how do you ensure you’re delivering valuable insights that bring new perspectives to the table?

The best critique not only delivers value to the original designer, but to everyone involved, because it raises the discourse to the underlying fundamentals and goals, not just the specifics of color and font size. Learning to critique well is like many other skills: the more you practice, the better you get.

You’ll know you’ve delivered a great critique when:

* The designer is receptive and engaged in the discussion, instead of being defensive and argumentative
* The designer becomes introspective and talks about how they want to revisit some of the underlying precepts of the design
* Other team members use the critique to look at other on-going work

You can read the full seminar details here.

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