The feedback that stung for a week.

I showed my portfolio to a senior designer at a meetup in Denver last month. She looked at my case study for a coffee shop app and just said, 'You buried the real problem.' I asked her what she meant. She pointed out I spent three paragraphs on visual design but never explained why the old ordering process was broken. Totally changed how I structure my case studies now.

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pipergonzalez12d ago

I mean, is it really that deep though? Like yeah, feedback can sting, but a whole week seems like a lot for someone just pointing out you missed the actual problem. Maybe it's just me but I feel like if the critique was basically 'hey you skipped the main part', that's pretty gentle compared to some things I've heard designers say to each other. I get wanting to change how you structure stuff, but idk, spending a week upset over that seems like you might be taking it a little too personally.

felix47812d ago

Have you seen that study about how creative people actually process criticism slower than others?