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Design critique

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, design critique means: A meeting where designers show work in progress and colleagues give structured, honest feedback on whether the design meets its goals.

In Turkish: tasarım değerlendirmesi, tasarım kritiği

How it is used

Often shortened to 'crit'. Good critique focuses on goals and users ('Does this help a first-time buyer?') rather than personal taste ('I don't like blue'). Many teams hold a weekly design critique.

Example sentences

  1. I'll bring the new dashboard to Thursday's design critique.

  2. In a design critique, explain the problem first, then show the solution.

Common collocations

  • weekly design critique
  • run a critique
  • give critique
  • critique session
  • feedbackThe signal a system gives in response to a user's action, such as a button changing colour, a loading spinner or a success message, so people know what happened.
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by a project or has a say in it, such as customers, managers, other teams, the legal team or support.
  • iterateTo go through the items of a collection one by one, or more generally to repeat a process and improve the result each time.

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