Michael C Place on design criticism

As an established designer, do you think Twitter is the right place to criticise work?

Michael C Place: No. My biggest problem with the people who are openly criticising the work is that they have no idea of the process involved and how it led to the end result. They are not privy to the discussions with the client. It’s critique based purely on a visual outcome. Which we all know is just one element of the whole design process.

The whole ‘I could have done better’ is utter bullshit. It’s disrespectful to the client, agency and designer. Basically, it’s design as spectator sport or clickbait.

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