Client
Personal
Services
Visual Design
UI & UX Design
Industries
Productivity
Collaborative Design
Year
2023
"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
- Ralph Nader
The design paradox: talking in a visual domain
Here is the paradox, while the majority of the design field is about visuals, the majority of feedback is given through words - whether that be spoken or typed.
I wanted to build a simple way to give and get feedback for visual domains, in this case, UI Design.
Why hasn't feedback gone visual yet?
Convenience.
It's way easier to type something out than to build an entire design from the ground up.
try this out - ask someone nearby for feedback and more often than not they will take control of your device to show you some changes
A crucial step to push feedback into a more visual space is giving the mentor access to the elements of the file so that all they have to do now, is reorchestrate the design.
"Just add me to the file bro"
Seems like the obvious answer to this entire problem. but it's not that simple...
The obvious solution for Figma collaboration access has a few problems,
1. Accidental Edits
2. Max 200 contributor file limit
3. Work interruptions
So instead of that we use a plugin to share design files along with their editable components.
Currently, to emulate this I have a rough system of using the Libriwi plugin to achieve a similar purpose
The plugin works using this technical structure:
- The plugin uses the Figma API to get all the components of the selected design.
- Then generates a unique URL for the component using the Figma API.
- We can now copy the URL to the clipboard.
- Now you can share the URL of the component and paste it wherever you want
- When the recipient clicks on the URL, it will open the component
- Now the recipient can copy paste onto the figma file
Seeking the signal from the noise
So now once we have the design feedback piling in, we need to consider which ones to learn from and go in depth into.
Some pointers on what makes feedback, good.
1. Needs to be constructive
2. Needs to be actionable
3. Needs to be clear and concise
We need a collective area in the plugin to review feedback in bulk and then make informed decisions. For this, your design is displayed alongside the mentor's, in a split-screen format.
This gives us 2 types of input:
1. a visual understanding
2. a verbal context
As you review the feedback, some insights might have valuable feedback, this can be merged into the file along with the comments.
Future Scope
