Design critique is one of the important components of design and design aesthetics. In terms of individual design activities, design critiques have always existed throughout the entire activities from creativity to production and consumption.
What Design Critique really wants to achieve is to help designers grow by listening, encouraging, guiding, and suggesting. In contrast, I prefer to call it design exploration, because it sounds like more relaxed. Through this process, people get more advice and ideas.
It sounds a bit like the design reviews, but in fact, there are some differences. For the team, design review have a high quality, executable design plan. The next development team will take it for functional development. The design critiques are ultimately intended to be a design idea, methodological recommendations, so the design critiques are relatively less demanding and more relaxed than the business objectives.
The role of design critiques in design activities cannot be ignored. It is more about the spirit of the humanities that embodies the design. It is the composition of the entire design activity. The role of value involves many aspects. Here we mainly deal with several aspect.
- First of all, design has a guiding role in the reader’s reading and understanding of the design work;
- Design critiques can help people choose and identify works;
- In addition, the design critiques have a regulatory effect on the designer’s creative activities.