Three Stars And A Wish

Hi Guys,

Here's something I know to be true from my mathematics teaching days:
The best way I can teach you to sketch a quadratic function is by telling you the things you're doing wrong and give you the reasons you're doing them wrong. If I tell you you're doing great and let the wrong things slide, you're never going to sketch that parabola right

So, here's my annoying situation of the day:

Whenever I go to website feedback, I'll give feedback that tells the person 3 or 4 things they can improve on their site.

What I get back is something like:

'I love your site, I love your colours, I love the pictures, love love love love love.. did I mention I love your site?'

and, well I love my site too and I'm super proud of what I've created but it's not perfect; in fact it's very far from perfect and I actually want people to tell me why it's NOT perfect. Tell me it sucks if you think it sucks becuase then I can make it better!

I go on site feedback because I WANT some pointers on how to do BETTER

So, I'm going to put on my teacher hat on and teach you something we learned about in a professional development session one day. It's called:

THREE STARS AND A WISH!

So, essentially, you tell the person three good things (stars) about their site and then give them one thing you wish was better.

Personally, I'd rather one star and three wishes but I know I'm a bit of a negative Nelly and I've learned the hard way that most people like positive reinforcement far more than constructive feedback.

Anyway,

that's my two cents worth for today!

Have a great weekend

Marketa ;)