Feedback.
We always talk about it in school, but we never really use it wisely, at least I never did. In the Innovation Academy, I've learned that failure helps you progress, even if your failure is just a small mistake, you can always improve from it. This sounds cliché, but what I'm trying to say is that failure helps you recapture what happened and make everything that went wrong stand out. That seems painful, and it is, emotionally, but if you know how to use that sense of failure to your best advantage then you will always be improving immensely.
While designing and planning this year's ICC mural for my grade, I was always feeling like I was failing at the job. It got to the day before the final design was due and that is when I decided to use everyone as a source. I printed the scan of the final design and started coloring it to how I thought would look nice. I then made a post about it asking for feedback. Everyone said the same thing: the quote isn't readable. I just decided that I would do another draft, with the quote outlined in black. I posted the second version and then a few minor details were pointed out, I wrote them down and fixed them for the third and final design. The last design ended up being one of the best versions of the same thing and that is when I realised that is how things work. Feedback is important.
Feedback shapes the outcome of something, it doesn't really matter if its a product, a presentation, a project or a mural, the feedback helps you. Its always good to see how a test public reacts to your work, that way you can improve.
Now does feedback always equal improvement? I don't think so. It depends on how each individual, company or organisation treats and uses the feedback. If you just play around with the feedback and try to hide that there are flaws with your product, then you will fail big-time, but if you give the feedback meaning, maybe even let it get to you emotionally, you will want to change the product or outcome for the best.
We always talk about it in school, but we never really use it wisely, at least I never did. In the Innovation Academy, I've learned that failure helps you progress, even if your failure is just a small mistake, you can always improve from it. This sounds cliché, but what I'm trying to say is that failure helps you recapture what happened and make everything that went wrong stand out. That seems painful, and it is, emotionally, but if you know how to use that sense of failure to your best advantage then you will always be improving immensely.
While designing and planning this year's ICC mural for my grade, I was always feeling like I was failing at the job. It got to the day before the final design was due and that is when I decided to use everyone as a source. I printed the scan of the final design and started coloring it to how I thought would look nice. I then made a post about it asking for feedback. Everyone said the same thing: the quote isn't readable. I just decided that I would do another draft, with the quote outlined in black. I posted the second version and then a few minor details were pointed out, I wrote them down and fixed them for the third and final design. The last design ended up being one of the best versions of the same thing and that is when I realised that is how things work. Feedback is important.
Feedback shapes the outcome of something, it doesn't really matter if its a product, a presentation, a project or a mural, the feedback helps you. Its always good to see how a test public reacts to your work, that way you can improve.
Now does feedback always equal improvement? I don't think so. It depends on how each individual, company or organisation treats and uses the feedback. If you just play around with the feedback and try to hide that there are flaws with your product, then you will fail big-time, but if you give the feedback meaning, maybe even let it get to you emotionally, you will want to change the product or outcome for the best.