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For those who have been in the design industry for a while we can tell ourselves “we need to get better at critique

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If you are a designer product manager developer architect frankly anyone who creates products you know that the work is inherently collaborative

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As you create you need input from clients users stakeholders and the list goes on so that the end product is something that will be well received

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And often its not elicited it’s offered preemptively and not necessarily constructively

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If you can give and receive critique effectively you will get better at your job

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They contrast useful critique with feedback that is simply a quick gut reaction or a way that people reveal their own often biased vision for the product or idea being discussed

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They confront directly the artdesign school stereotype of critique in which work by a novice is figuratively or possibly literally ripped apart by a senior designer

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The first chapter understanding critique also examines benefits that real critique brings to workplace teams building opportunities to develop shared vocabularies and advance collaborative decisionmaking among people with disparate backgrounds and responsibilities