I love prototyping but hate the instant terrible feedback. People often look at the construction instead of the results and/or can't/won't imagine it a first step or how awesome a final product it can turn into.
Don't even look at the comments. Turn them off if you can. They're not paying you, so you are under no obligation to please them.
On the other hand, if you know that you're going to get undesired feedback, why post your stuff in public in the first place? You don't get the glory without the risk. Before the internet, people did things because they liked to, and because they enjoyed them. They didn't need the praise of a thousand random strangers to feel good about their accomplishments.
While you may argue "deal with it", and rightly so in most circumstances, but then you are only addressing an issue of grit. I have plenty of grit in _some_ areas of my life, but not _all_ areas of my life.
And, sometimes the negativity is unexpected like when you are just showing something you find cool or neat that you built. (ie, I have never once put my code out in public nor sought praise for it)
Everyone has a limit where they can't take any more negative feedback on something.
And with prototyping I have found it better to wait to show the client until it's in an "appealing" state. Hence my question about masking tape prototype. (my favorite material to build with as a kid because it was plentiful and easy to rip, but was unappealing visually)
The masking tape criticism would come into category 2.
Your categories are all logical responses, what about the immediate emotional effects of the responses?
If you have never experienced an immediate emotional response from criticism I count you extremely lucky that you don't have to face it. But for those of us that do, we are looking for answer to the emotional side of things.
Is there some technique you have used to blunt the emotions and look at them only logically?
Our brain/body is good at adapting so you simply ignore it or rather embrace the pain, yes it will be painful in the beginning but the more you are exposed to it the better it will be over time.
I don't disagree with you, I was just hoping there may be something else to consider.
You are right, there may be a way, I am hoping there maybe something to consider...
My reaction was, huh cool. I didn't even stop to think about the aesthetics. You were the one to introduce that into this thread.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/976f8050-5fc9-4cbc-abf3-16cfaa4...