It's so weird for me to hear from people who were at BaconBizConf and thought the teardowns were "brutal" or "punishing."
None of us panelists ever said "This is terrible" or anything of that sort, or insulted anyone/anything, or discouraged any of the volunteers, etc. We said "This doesn't work" "That won't work" "That's weak" etc.… and then gave lots of supportive suggestions to make it better. The worst possible thing anyone said is when Patrick said [paraphrasing] "Please don't take this personally, but if your target market is designers, you need to have more of a… design."
Genuinely asking "Why would I be interested in this?" is not only not brutal, it's not even a criticism.
I guess more people need to experience actual brutal criticism in order to see how our teardown was anything but!
None of us panelists ever said "This is terrible" or anything of that sort, or insulted anyone/anything, or discouraged any of the volunteers, etc. We said "This doesn't work" "That won't work" "That's weak" etc.… and then gave lots of supportive suggestions to make it better. The worst possible thing anyone said is when Patrick said [paraphrasing] "Please don't take this personally, but if your target market is designers, you need to have more of a… design."
Genuinely asking "Why would I be interested in this?" is not only not brutal, it's not even a criticism.
I guess more people need to experience actual brutal criticism in order to see how our teardown was anything but!