Over the past several weeks, we posted a number of our own projects on
Concept Feedback, including our
Public and Expert Pitch pages, and most recently, our
Public Member Page. We wanted to get website feedback from our own community, and find out if maybe they knew something we didn't :) Not surprisingly, they did, and we received an abundance of high-quality, insightful ideas which helped us improve our design mock-ups. The feedback was actionable, specific and creative - exactly what we were hoping to offer our users and customers when we launched last year.
The phrase "design by committee" evokes a range of emotions from designers, mostly the kind you save for an arch-nemesis (think Lex Luthor) or expend on your
Windows-based PC. A quick search will uncover a variety of
articles and
jokes bemoaning the process, and with good reason; it has long been the Achilles’ heel of many a designer’s creative freedom.