perspective I think there may be some redundancy and opportunities to
simplify...”
A Simple Framework For Critique
It’s helpful to have a sense of what the structure of a good critique sounds or
looks like. As we shared in Chapter 1, critique contains 3 important details:
It identifies a specific aspect of the idea or a design decision in the
creation being analyzed.
It relates that aspect or decision to an objective or best practice.
It describes how and why the aspect or decision work to support or
not support the objective or best practice.To make sure that, uncover and include all of these details there is a simple
framework of four questions that we can ask ourselves, or the other individuals
participating in the critique.
What was the creator trying to achieve?How did they try to achieve it?How effective were their choices?Why is, or isn’t, what they did effective?These four questions flow together to generate feedback in the form of
critique. By asking these questions we collect the necessary information that
allows us to think critically about the creation we’re examining. Lets take a
look at these questions individually.
What was the creator trying to achieve?
We want to understand what we’re to be analyzing the creation
against so that we can focus our attention on things that are pertinent
to the conversation and the improvement and success of the creation.
So we try to identify the objectives that they creator was aiming to
accomplish through the choices they made. What are the objectives of
the project or creation that have been agreed upon by the team?