The final phase of Design Challenge 1 is Peer Review. Each student must provide 3 critiques of other students’ assignments. Note: the critiques themselves will be graded. The critiques are not for grading the designs. We are looking to see that students understand how to assess designs, and to give critique in a constructive manner.
How this will work:
- The course staff will choose a design from each student who has turned in an assignment in a timely fashion.
- We will assign each design a number, and place them all in a Canvas file folder directory – which is accessible as this link. (there will be approximately 60 PDF files with designs named 01.pdf, 02.pdf etc.). If you followed instructions, your name will not be in your design, so critics will not know who you are.
- We will send each student an “assignment” of 3 different numbers where we have randomly chosen 3 designs for you to critique. We will try to avoid assigning people their own design, but let us know if we goof. We plan to do this by email on Friday, October 4th. If you do not receive your assignment by Sunday, October 6th, please send a note to Aditya.
- If you want to critique more than 3 designs, we will also provide you with 3 extra numbers. Please do the 3 assigned ones first. We will only grade the assigned critiques, but you may want to provide feedback for your classmates. You are also welcome to look through as many designs as you want.
- You can get the PDFs for the designs you need to critique by looking in the directory (see #3).
- Enter your critiques in this google form HERE. Please do not identify yourself in the body of the critique (but put your WISC email address and name in the form entries for those things). The form will ask you which design you are critiquing.
- After the assignment is due, we will release all critiques (without any name information, but with the number of the design they are critiquing). This way, you can look for the critiques of your design (we will tell you which designs are yours). You can also look for other critiques of the designs that you critiqued (to compare how good your critique was). If you want, you can read any, or all of the critiques.
- The course staff will grade the 3 critiques you wrote and assign a grade and post it on Canvas. We will assign an A-F grade.
If all goes according to plan, we will have a “double blind” review process where each student provides 3 reviews and should receives 3 reviews.
If you turn in your DC1 Phase 3 late, your designs may not get critiqued. You still must do critiques.
Because we won’t be able to get the designs out to people for critique until Friday, October 4th (at the earliest), we are making the due date for critiques Friday, October 11th (rather than the usual design challenge due date of Wednesday).