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Sad to say this is 1000% accurate.

Here’s Some Feedback On Your Feedback 🗒️

Ah, feedback.

I posted designer Milton Glaser’s famous poster of Bob Dylan on LinkedIn. But there was a twist.

It was a version of the poster showing all the ways today’s colleagues and clients provide feedback. Usually on a collaborative platform like Google docs.

The photo is above. You can see how “helpful” people are.

This got me thinking about the role of feedback.

At its best, in my experience, the most valuable feedback is some form of truth.

“Hey, this idea can be stronger, have you considered..?”

Or “This post might offend someone with this or that reference.”

The feedback that I don’t like (and never liked) was when a Creative Director would say to me something like, “Keep going,” or “Have more fun with it.”

Or a client would say, ‘I don’t like it.” I’d ask why and they would say, ‘I don’t know.”

Vague is a plague.

Read the full story on PRINT: https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/heres-some-feedback-on-your-feedback/

Words & imagery: Rob Schwartz
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