Meredith Take Two

Response to design presentation

Today's presentation of our prototype designs to the Meredith group went really well. After not touching my Poised designs for almost a month, it was refreshing to give them another look over and get feedback from industry people about possible improvements and overall thoughts.

I was honestly surprised at how pleased they were with the designs. They might have just been overly pleasant, but I expected there to more criticism of our concepts and final products. I got some great suggestions about things that could have worked better and a considerable amount of recognition for the designs I produced.

As a designer, I feel like I don't get too much positive reinforcement. Maybe it's because of my generation and all those theories that our parents boosted our confidence too much so now we all need to be told we're doing well in order to feel good about ourselves. Either way, it was nice to get some recognition and a bit of encouragement as the semester brings itself to an end and I continue to debate running into oncoming traffic.