Hey everyone! I'm toying with an idea for doing regular videos where I do design reviews and critiques for folks.
My hope would be that beginners get a lot of benefit from it, but also seasoned developers who are looking to grow their design skills would also gain from it.
Quick bit of history on who I am and why you might want this sort of content: I've got 13 years doing web design and development. The past 6, I worked at a design agency. In that time, I was the main UX strategist and then lead the design and development teams. I was involved with hundreds of design reviews and found that it was a passion of mine to help designers reach the next level with their designs.
Interested?
There's been so much interest in getting critiques and I'm loving each request that's come in. I've currently grabbed all the requests from this post. I'm moving the request functionality to its own site to help make this better:
Get a Design Critique or a Code Review
Critiques
As I publish, I'll try to add them here for now.
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Latest comments (47)
Hey, I would like to hear your opinion, here is my portfolio
lisandropat.com
Thanks!
Hey Lisandro! I've got this added to my list. Looking forward to it!
2 for 1? My colleague @debpu06 and I have blog sites:
davidboland.site
ilovecode.io
They're fairly similar, so might make sense looking at both?
Sure thing! I wouldn't mind seeing @debpu06 pop into the replies here and give a +1 just so I know he's on board :D
Yes, please!
Got it! :D
Hey Bryan. Thanks for offering that. I could use some help.
I'm working on https:/remoted.io, an open source remote job aggregator for IT professionals.
The website only exists for a month and it is not doing bad but I'm struggling a bit to retain users. If you could give me advice that would be lovely =)
I've got it added to my list! I'll respond here when I get it up and running!
Thank you very much =)
Awesome! I don't have design skills, so I would love some feedback on my portfolio Thanks for this!
Hey, Anderson! I've got your design review up! You can head over here and take a look: peerreviews.dev/videos/anderson-jo...
Thanks!!!! I'm going to check it right now.
I've got it on my list! I'll respond here when it's up!
Awesome! I’ve been wanting some feedback on my personal blog, so I’d be pleased to hear your opinion. :-) Please note the site is desktop and mobile friendly.
Here it is: blog.florimond.dev
Thanks 🙌
Hey Florimond! Your review video is up and running!
peerreviews.dev/videos/florimond-m...
Hey Florimond! I've got yours in my list! Will respond with a comment when I get it online!
May I have a try, too? I find the design very pleasing in general, but there are 2 things I'd change:
the search bar doesn't match the columns below; you might want to end it where the main content column ends
a menu with only 1 entry is not worth a menu, so just put the theme selector on the page and get rid of the hamburger menu
I'm curious what Bryan says...
Thanks! Those are two very relevant points.
I actually have private menu items which I use for the admin part of the blog, but regular users indeed see only one item. Good catch!
Hey Bryan! I've actually been doing portfolio reviews and mock interviews on my streaming channel. Would love to talk about collaborating on something!
I'd be open to doing some sort of collaboration. I've never used the chat functionality here, but feel free to hit me up on that, or shoot me a DM on twitter (twitter.com/brob)
Sure! patch.team
Hey Jaimie. Would you like me to critique the landing page/signup or would you like me to critique the logged in experience? I probably won't have time in the length of videos I'm doing to do both
Hi Bryan. The landing page is pretty rubbish, and I know that... Bear in mind the target user group is about 40 people in Australia. So I know them all personally, and it will never be a commercial project. I made the app primarily for my own use, but thought it would be cool if my colleagues would use it, too. However, nobody is using it - at all - despite it actually being pretty much exactly what is needed for the job. They're all using paper and/or PDF (really), which are always wrong for the crew. I'm absolutely astounded and baffled that they all can be so pig headed and will not use patchTeam. The industry and job is very competitive - we're all after the same jobs every year, but surely this can't be the reason my colleagues aren't using the app.
Perhaps you can look at this from a programmers point of view and critique the user experience in general???
The ideas of reviews and critiques make me nervous, so I better start getting used to them...here's my portfolio: kjlarson.com
Thanks for doing this!
It can definitely be nerve wracking, but it's also one of the best ways to grow as a designer.
Peer review is also a great starting point. I've presented and received a lot of critiques from clients and those can be less fun ;)
I'll get you on my list and let you know when I've got one recorded!
I would like a design critique for my portfolio: jcsmileyjr.github.io/v2-Portfolio
Thanks in advance
On it!
I'd be interested in this for my personal blog! coreyja.com
Sounds like a lot of fun! I like the idea and wonder if I could apply a similar format for some code review kinda thing! 🤔
Hey Corey! I've got your design review up! I really liked a lot of what you had going on!
Here's the video:
Design Critique: Corey Alexander's Blog and logo
Bryan Robinson ・ Jul 11 ・ 1 min read
Awesome! I'll add you to the list!
You can and totally SHOULD apply the format to code reviews. I've been thinking about this for a while, but the inspiration for me finally making a big push on it was my friend James Quick publishing his first code review video.
youtube.com/watch?v=dgttPoE_R5Q
I think it can be SO worthwhile for everyone involved in it.