Building A Culture Of Innovation? Mastering the art of Design Critique.

Nihal Walia
3 min readJan 27, 2020

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At Copan, we are inventing customer-oriented solutions with high empathetic values which connect the human race to their needs. Also, our mission’s integral part of the journey is how to make our design process lean.

I always motivate people in workshops to adopt Design Critique and make the most of it. I have got a good team of designers and we are always up to the new challenges trying to cleanse our design process. It is thus that we have embraced Design Critique.

Here is a sneak peek into the workshop:

Motivates Liberal Thinking

Designers feel more open and welcoming to the suggestions which help them think with different perceptions. People get involved in each other’s stuff thoroughly which makes the workspace more enjoyable. It gives more liberty to ask questions and opportunities to solve design problems.

A better alliance among the teams

Different teams possess different experience and design powers. Design Critique welcomes all the members on a single platform to share their knowhows which make them work as a single team and they look more syncronised in an organization.

Improves Self-Design Evaluation art - Solo Critiquing

When designers get used to performing Design Critiques with others their thoughts get widen up as they start thinking about different perceptions. Now designers start focussing on what people may ask in future sessions. It helps grow the art of solo critiquing.

See how people were engaged:

Taking questions from the crowd
Trying best to explain!

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Nihal Walia

Good Design is like a fresh air, it let's users breathe.