Design Feedback

Learn how to give a design feedback for better results

Giving a feedback on design is easy while giving a good feedback is an art. The feedback often leads to meet the goals on the one side but often tend to break the aesthetics on the other. Learn how to give a good feedback so management and design goals can live in harmony.

So, what is good design? This answer has been given by Dieter Rams in his 10 principles. Think about it :-)

Giving design feedback is about pointing out the problem rather than giving a solution. The responsibility of the designer is the design while the product managers responsibility is to define the right goals.

There is a very subtle difference between giving a good and a bad feedback. Read about do’s and dont’s and anaylse for yourself if you can improve on your feedback. Here is another link about how to give valuable design feedback from Google Ventures.

Sometimes it’s hard to express the problems you see in a design. Understanding what is going on is the right starting point to give a proper feedback. As in every profession it’s possible to learn about different aspects. Take a look and browse through the lessons from hackdesign to find the right answers.