Hey everyone! I'm toying with an idea for doing regular videos where I do design reviews and critiques for folks.
My hope would be that beginners get a lot of benefit from it, but also seasoned developers who are looking to grow their design skills would also gain from it.
Quick bit of history on who I am and why you might want this sort of content: I've got 13 years doing web design and development. The past 6, I worked at a design agency. In that time, I was the main UX strategist and then lead the design and development teams. I was involved with hundreds of design reviews and found that it was a passion of mine to help designers reach the next level with their designs.
Interested?
There's been so much interest in getting critiques and I'm loving each request that's come in. I've currently grabbed all the requests from this post. I'm moving the request functionality to its own site to help make this better:
Get a Design Critique or a Code Review
Critiques
As I publish, I'll try to add them here for now.
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Awesome! I’ve been wanting some feedback on my personal blog, so I’d be pleased to hear your opinion. :-) Please note the site is desktop and mobile friendly.
Here it is: blog.florimond.dev
Thanks 🙌
May I have a try, too? I find the design very pleasing in general, but there are 2 things I'd change:
the search bar doesn't match the columns below; you might want to end it where the main content column ends
a menu with only 1 entry is not worth a menu, so just put the theme selector on the page and get rid of the hamburger menu
I'm curious what Bryan says...
Thanks! Those are two very relevant points.
I actually have private menu items which I use for the admin part of the blog, but regular users indeed see only one item. Good catch!
Hey Florimond! Your review video is up and running!
peerreviews.dev/videos/florimond-m...
Hey Florimond! I've got yours in my list! Will respond with a comment when I get it online!
This is great! I think we could brainstorm here how this format could fit best into the site.
It probably comes down to coming up with the proper tag to imply the format for the input/output dynamic here. If we get the format right I think this could be an awesome regular thing for you (and others) to take on.
See, I didn't even think about the fact that features could be made around this idea ;)
I figured low-hanging fruit was, get a site or a design, record a video doing the crtique (with as little editing needs as possible), then post :D
I'm definitely game for bigger and better
It’d be really great to have some form of form that has responses chronological. I could be wrong but it seemed the comments jumped around, so hard to figure out “first come first served”
Also some way to make a question/answer look and feel maybe?
Out of curiosity, what sort of tags do you think would do best for content like this? First video is transcoding now ;)
Also, first, getting folks who are interested ;)
I’d also be curious how live Q&A might fit the platform
A couple other notes:
Hello Bryan, so i have been working of the UI for what is to be a portfolio site for a photographer friend of mine, anyways i would love to here your opinion.
Its a figma design so i would need your email to give you viewing access.
PS: I'm a total newbie to design.
Hey Dan! Shoot me a DM here or on Twitter (twitter.com/brob)
Hello! I totally want to hear your opinion.
Here is my portfolio
codepen.io/Pixmy/full/XeqvNm
Thank you so much!
Hey @pixmy ! Since you posted a link first, you get the first video!
Here's the first in the series:
Design Critiques: @pixmy portfolio website design
Bryan Robinson ・ 1 min read
Awesome! I'll add this to the list and reply here when I record it!
Hey Bryan. Thanks for offering that. I could use some help.
I'm working on https:/remoted.io, an open source remote job aggregator for IT professionals.
The website only exists for a month and it is not doing bad but I'm struggling a bit to retain users. If you could give me advice that would be lovely =)
I've got it added to my list! I'll respond here when I get it up and running!
Thank you very much =)
2 for 1? My colleague @debpu06 and I have blog sites:
davidboland.site
ilovecode.io
They're fairly similar, so might make sense looking at both?
Yes, please!
Got it! :D
Sure thing! I wouldn't mind seeing @debpu06 pop into the replies here and give a +1 just so I know he's on board :D
Hey Bryan! I've actually been doing portfolio reviews and mock interviews on my streaming channel. Would love to talk about collaborating on something!
I'd be open to doing some sort of collaboration. I've never used the chat functionality here, but feel free to hit me up on that, or shoot me a DM on twitter (twitter.com/brob)
Oh I would love that!! I'm no designer, but like to make it more appealing to the eye.
Danjel.dev
Hey Danjel! I've got the video up and running. It's up above but also, for ease, here's the link:
Design Critique: Portfolio Danjel.dev
Bryan Robinson ・ Jun 19 ・ 1 min read
Awesome! I've got you on the list and I'll reply here when I get one recorded and edited!
I'll bite Bryan :) I've been meaning to do a design overhaul for my site! Care to give it a whirl? laurieontech.com/
Woohoo! I'm sprinting through as many as I can today and will be scheduling them out to have weekly content. I'd literally sat back down when I got the notifications, so UP the standing desk goes again and I resume my screencasting posture :D
I'd be interested in this for my personal blog! coreyja.com
Sounds like a lot of fun! I like the idea and wonder if I could apply a similar format for some code review kinda thing! 🤔
Awesome! I'll add you to the list!
You can and totally SHOULD apply the format to code reviews. I've been thinking about this for a while, but the inspiration for me finally making a big push on it was my friend James Quick publishing his first code review video.
youtube.com/watch?v=dgttPoE_R5Q
I think it can be SO worthwhile for everyone involved in it.
Hey Corey! I've got your design review up! I really liked a lot of what you had going on!
Here's the video:
Design Critique: Corey Alexander's Blog and logo
Bryan Robinson ・ Jul 11 ・ 1 min read