How to evaluate if a design is good?

How to evaluate if a design is good?

1. Critique

   • Feedback
     • Criticism is much easier than being generative. Criticism hold much more value than engaging in creation in this society
       • Ways in which we can ensure feedback critique is useful
         • 2-way process: Designer providing the rationale for design choice & critic responding to the judgments
         • Engage deeply: More expertise the critic has on the problem more likely the feedback will be valuable
         • Divergent and convergent: This nature of the critiques, generates ideas or points to a completely new direction. Additionally, it can also narrow down findings
     • Critiques can at times be negative to some extent. Training designers to be thick skin and give deeply honest feedback is essential to improvise on designs
       • "hamburger rule": Start with positive aspects of the design and then continue with the harsh feedback
     • Criterion for good feedback
       • Resputful & accepting
       • Collaborative
       • Grounded in design rationale & judgement
   • Socratic questioning
     • Deeply probe the designer's way of thinking and dig beneath the surface of their design
       • Questions which help achieve Socratic criticism
         • Clarification Questions
         • Questions that challenge assumptions
         • Questions that encourage alternative perspectives
         • Questions that encourage the designer to think about the implications and consequences of their design

2. Empericalism

3. Analysis

4. Make absolute judgement of "good" design

   • Intutive
   • User friendly
   • Simple
   • Powerful
   • Simple
   • Novel
   • Invisible: Example Sire and Alexa
   • Universal
   • Just