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Don’t take design critique as an insult

Fabricio Teixeira
UX Collective
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5 min readJan 23, 2018

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I’ve been listening for a while now for Brian Koppelman’s podcast “The Moment” where he talks to people of different professions, including screenwriters. These guys, when work on a new scenario, just like designers, show their work to other people…

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Often critiques are subjective — just people’s opinions, with nothing to back it up except other opinions. Suggesting A/B testing is pretty hard to argue with. Often times what the client (or team) thinks is best is not, in fact, what performs best.
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Excellent written.
Agree to say —
1-defend the design to the tactful limit.
2-Admit your fault, don’t fight unnecessarily, in doubt google the problem in different criteria.
3- Add new users or peers to best UX experience.
4- design can never perfect. so, keep on improving as much possible....

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