The Design Critique template can be used to effectively manage the entire process of a design project.
When to use
The table can be used at the start of a design project to plan, compare, work on and work on the future steps of your work.
How to use
Click and drag the plus sign to add a sticky note to the corresponding category. Click on the sticky note to add text and customize.
Work in the order of Plan, Competitors, Design, Critique then Next to follow through with your entire project.
Plan: add notes to each section to get a greater understanding of the goals of your project
Who
Who are you designing for?
What
What are the goals of the design?
Why
Why are we designing this?
How
How can our design be the best?
Competitors:
Add files of examples of competing designs by either dragging files directly from your desktop or adding the files from the Alleo “Files” tab.
You can also reference the work by embedding a link by going to Experimental and Embed.
Design
Add finished works of your design to the “All” section by either dragging files directly from your desktop or adding the files from the Alleo “Files” tab.
To present to your group, grab a file from All and move to Featured for a larger view
Critique
Add critiques to your designs after presenting and analyzing your designs.
Next
Add your plans for work that needs to be done to the design before the final submission.
After mapping out all of these plans, move them from Planning to Doing to Done based upon their completion status.
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