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Critic Perspective
The discipline of questioning before shipping.
What It Enables
The Critic Perspective institutionalizes structured skepticism — reviewing decisions, artifacts, and assumptions against principles, evidence, and stakeholder needs.
Impact It Creates
Catches costly mistakes early and raises the quality ceiling of every experience shipped.
Core Capabilities
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Design Critique
- Risk Framing
- Quality Assurance
- Peer Review
The Gap
Teams that skip critique repeat the same mistakes across releases. Critic capability compounds learning across cycles.
HFI Practitioner Survey 2026