AWARD YEAR
2023
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education, Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
educational game, Game Design, gameification , feedback, design tool kit
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Wolf in Motion
WEBSITE
https://www.theworstcritofyourlife.com/about
The Worst Crit Of Your Life
Facing brutally honest feedback to better designers' products
How does it work?
The Worst Crit of Your Life is a game for designers and alike to test their concepts against a trio of brutally honest, cynical, and deprecating lecturers. For designers, this is meant to be familiar since a "crit" (critique) is a standard method of feedback in the design world.
Why is it needed?
The Worst Crit Of Your Life is an experience designed to encourage reflection on how design influences happiness through an online roleplay game that uses humour to enable designers and alike to test their concepts against a trio of virtual assessors.
How does it improve life?
Since 2018, London-based design studio Wolf in Motion has been exploring the theme of happiness in design, through research and experiments.
Their belief is that designers are too often encouraged to create products and experiences that focus on the short-term satisfaction of the user, ignoring long-term impacts on society and the planet.