Guidelines for constructive and empowering design feedback and critique

Patrick Thornton
UX Collective
Published in
12 min readJan 30, 2019

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Regular, well-run feedback and critique sessions are critical for helping to refine a product and make it great, and a lot of these sessions do not help accomplish those goals.

Doing critique and feedback sessions in a way that is constructive and empowering, without hurting feelings and trust takes practice and patience.

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Vice President, UX at Gartner Digital Markets. Building a better-designed world.