Pat Pohler had a teardown too. He should share his lessons learned as well... {Pat Signal}
Pat Pohler had a teardown too. He should share his lessons learned as well... {Pat Signal}
None of us panelists ever said "This is terrible" or anything of that sort, or insulted anyone/anything, or discouraged any of the volunteers, etc. We said "This doesn't work" "That won't work" "That's weak" etc.… and then gave lots of supportive suggestions to make it better. The worst possible thing anyone said is when Patrick said [paraphrasing] "Please don't take this personally, but if your target market is designers, you need to have more of a… design."
Genuinely asking "Why would I be interested in this?" is not only not brutal, it's not even a criticism.
I guess more people need to experience actual brutal criticism in order to see how our teardown was anything but!
Then again, there's something to be said for being willing to be scrutinized by your heroes. Therein lies my admiration for Sean.
I have a huge amount of respect for people who:
A. Ask for feedback. B. Publicly! C. Act on the feedback.
That's why Sean is awesome :) He did a GREAT job incorporating our feedback into something that's 10x better than before.