Design Crit

I too disagree with Lupton on Crit. Through my years of different design classes at different levels, I have found crit as a major influence in a designs final outcome. Everyone has a different eye and their opinion may or may not help you but at least you have have options. Crit sometimes can be painful but other than helping your design you can help someones else and broaden your design vocab.

The biggest thing that evolved from my schooling was getting down a process that works for me in creating a design. Through three different programs I had three different choices and basically fusing them together into a process throwing out what I didn't like. Also I learned to be adaptive to the design at hand because you can approach each different problem the same way but the execution will be different.