Design systems critique sessions at Pinterest are open to all designers and engineers from different product areas, enabling cross-functional collaboration and diverse perspectives. It isn't just how we determine the success of a design concept but also how we drive our work forward. We've learned that what sets a valuable critique apart is the story we tell and how we engage with our audience. It can be challenging for people who work in completely different product areas to join a cross-functional design critique on a weekly basis to provide helpful feedback if the narrative is not precise.
In this interactive session learn how to perform a design critique by refining your storytelling skills and using words purposefully, focusing on inclusive design best practices. In addition, you will understand how to communicate the problem with clarity in a design critique, and how to engage with your audience by using different storytelling techniques and approaches to better frame the feedback you seek.
I took the UX leadership workshop with Courtney Kaplan. I found the workshop to be full of useful guidance, interactive conversations and frameworks for improving my design leadership presence. The ongoing follow-up coaching workshops and discussion forums have been especially powerful for me to check back in and hear from peers in a similar space.
RETHINK's coaching programs are the most thoughtful and structured I have ever experienced. They matched me with the best mentor I could have ever asked for.I am forever thankful for the structure that was put in place to foster fruitful conversations and to connect more meaningfully allowing a friendship to grow from it.
Thanks to the RETHINK events I've learned a lot of frameworks that I applied right away to deal with my own challenges in my day to day work.
