Reflection - Self Critique

The Purpose of Reflection

Self-Critique

Reflection is an important practice for students to grow and improve from a learning experience. In this course, it is also called a "Self-Critique".

Reflection

Reflection is a process where one can describe the learning achieved, process the change, and relate it to future learning.

According to the article, “The Pedagogical Balancing Act: Teaching Reflection in Higher Education”, the two purposes of reflection are:

1. Reflection allows students to make sense of material/experience in relation to oneself, others, and the conditions that shaped the material/experience;
2. Reimagine material/experience for future personal or social benefit (p. 147).

Benefits of Reflection

• Enhances meaning

• Encourges insight and self-awareness

• Involves a higher level of thinking
• Creates a link between current learning experiences to previous learnings.

• Improves decision making

• Involves a higher level of thinking
• Increases confidence
• Provides distance between you and your designs

"As an artist—whether your work is commercial or personal—you probably spend a large portion of your time working alone. This comes with a big disadvantage: you are intimately connected to the work. You know how it started, how it developed, what you kept and what you discarded. The audience, however, sees only the final piece. Does your intention come through? One of the hardest tasks in the creative field is to distance yourself enough from your work to be able to judge it objectively."

- Wendy RichmondDesigning the Self-Critique

Self-Critique

my design

Need a Reviewon Critiquing Graphic Design?

HOW DO I START:

Three Steps in Critiquing Graphic Design

• Describe
• Analysis/Interpreting
• Judge

TIPS:

• Look at your design as an outsider
• Distance: look at your design away from the computer. Print it out and paste it on the wall
• Try the design in a different color or add a variation

SOURCES:

Arthur L. Costa, Bena Kallick. Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind: 16 Essential Characteristics for Success. ASCD; Illustrated edition, 2008. Gibbons, Sarah. "https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-critiques/." 23 Oct. 2016. Nielsen Norman Group logoNielsen Norman Group. 2023. Levin, Simon. "Critical Care: The Art of Self Critique." Ceramics Monthly August/September 2006: 34-38. Richmond, Wendy. "https://www.commarts.com/columns/designing-the-self-critique." n.d. Commarts. 2023.