Critique is a crucial element of learning about and developing design. Though it is often seen as intimidating, painful and daunting, the fact remains that it is through critique that we grow and learn as designers. Through productive critique a designer can receive feedback, gain an understanding of their audience and have the chance to look at their creation in a new light with the opportunity to reevaluate and rework their design.
An article by Kevin Cornell titled "Taking Critique" presented many helpful and interesting methods of making this process less painful and more productive but in the end we must simply be open and ready to face challenges, difficult opinions and even our own flaws. Most importantly we must be open minded in considering other options. To ignore critique is to ignore the way in which others may interpret and receive your work. Further, it is to ignore your work's place in society and its full potential in influencing the world around it.
There are great resources and events available to receive critique of your work. National Portfolio Day, for instance, is a great opportunity for high school students to present their portfolios to design schools to receive critique. Though it may be terrifying at first, in the end it is extremely helpful, interesting and beneficial to your current portfolio and your future works.
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