My Chart Hackensack

It is a fundamental recognition of human diversity, challenging designers to think beyond the "average" user and create solutions that work for everyone, without the need for special adaptation. The purpose of a crit is not just to get a grade or to receive praise. These methods felt a bit mechanical and silly at first, but I've come to appreciate them as tools for deliberately breaking a creative block. I began to see the template not as a static file, but as a codified package of expertise, a carefully constructed system of best practices and brand rules, designed by one designer to empower another. It was a triumph of geo-spatial data analysis, a beautiful example of how visualizing data in its physical context can reveal patterns that are otherwise invisible. We can scan across a row to see how one product fares across all criteria, or scan down a column to see how all products stack up on a single, critical feature.