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Presenting Design
Ideas for Design Reviews
These are great rules for starting a review session. They were borrowed from a collaborative workshop at Rockwell. They were listed on an introductory slide and reviewed at the beginning.
- Choose your own level of participation and disclosure. Accept personal responsibility for getting out of the session what you need.
- Listen to understand rather than to respond. Listen for the music as well as the words.
- Say what is true for you, while being respectful of others. Each person's perspective adds value to the group.
- Give yourself and others permission to not make sense. Learning occurs though exploring our confusions and apparent contradictions.
- Honor confidentiality. Share your feelings without putting others at risk. Ask for and gain permission before continuing a conversation.
- Become "comfortable" being "uncomfortable".
- Permission to respectfully accept or reject anything in the session. This is not about changing your personal values, but broadening your perspective and/or understanding by being open to hearing other points of view.
- Don't dominate the conversation. Be aware of how much you are contributing and let others have a moment to speak as well.