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By: liam

liam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:07:22 +0000

Great interview, and I thought your comments about autonomous criticism were interesting, it’s strange getting criticism from someone you cant oput a name or face to, or get an explaination too, and its comments like that which usually leave you thinking about them the most, strange that, as they are the kind of remarks you should probably just ignore.

Great read and I completely agree that this is not like any other job, or industry.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:31:53 +0000

Audee,
Thanks for the compliments, and thanks for reading my blog!

By: A u d e e

A u d e e — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:15:42 +0000

Been a fan of VandelayDesign.com blog, and I still can not find any way to critisize it :P. I always like the way you write articles that focused on SEO or blogging for designers fields and combine them with inspirational resouces links in your blog.
Looking forward for new ideas from your blog Steven!

~ Thank you for sharing this wonderful interview Thomas :D

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:54:35 +0000

Thomas,
Thanks for the interview.

I think I agree with you Thomas that if I know the person’s intentions then the criticism is welcomed. When you’re getting criticism face-to-face or over the phone there is no option to be anonymous. It hasn’t happened very often, but I’ve gotten a few blog comments here and there where people are critical, but they leave a fake name, fake email address and no URL. 95% of my commenters have a website, so it’s hard for me to believe that only the negative people don’t have websites. To me it just comes across as someone that wants to criticize but doesn’t want to be known and doesn’t want to open themselves up to any criticism on their own work.

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:03:49 +0000

I don´t care if someone who criticizes me says it face to face or anonymous as long as he stays polite and “on topic” …
Especially in the virtual world there are so many “trolls” out there (yes-we all met one,or ? :-) ) and you even meet such people in the real world. So for me its always the same: if i think the other person honestly mean what he says and he says it to make “the situation/produkt or whatever” better – then critic is good :-)

By: Jon Phillips

Jon Phillips — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:37:34 +0000

Great interview! Love the choice of music too!
I so agree with your answer to #9!! It’s always easier to digest criticism and comment when face to face, the facial expressions and attitude of a person says a lot, which you don’t have online.

Again, great interview, really enjoyed reading your answers Steven! :)

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:10:42 +0000

Hi John,
me too :-) so stay tuned :)

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:03:48 +0000

Great interview with Steven. And I have to agree with his choices of who you should do future interviews with, I would love to read an interview with all of those designers.

- John