How to give effective design feedback

How to give effective design feedback? Here is a blog post we wrote to summarize our recent work on enhancing design feedback:

➡️ https://medium.com/harvard-hci/ask-me-or-tell-me-c01a19bb05b5

In short: Asking an open-ended question first before stating the potentially negative or positive assessment results in better design revisions than just the assessment or just the question.

Great work with Spyridon Ampanavos, Pao Siangliulue, Hanspeter Pfister, and Krzysztof Gajos!

If you want to dive in deeper, below is our upcoming ACM CHI presentation and the paper. 📹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZ1bYAfi1I 📄 https://vcg.seas.harvard.edu/pubs/ask-or-tell-me

PS: The awesome figure was created by the fabulous Pao Siangliulue