To make sure that UI design critiques focus not just on the visual but also on the interactive, much less temporal, nature of the design, consider the following steps:

- Review the platform and the technologies being used to create the product so that the proposed solutions are not completely out of scope.
- Highlight the process in forms of storyboards, journey maps, or in other ways to reinforce the user's experience of using the UI.
- Focus on the UI demo, show more than tell! Your demo should also require minimal explanation. As the saying goes, a good UI is like a joke: If you have to explain it, it’s not very good.

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- Conducting design critiques for user interfaces (UIs) need to be performed throughout the entire product design and development process to keep the product design on track. 

- They are also useful in an interactive agile and lean UX product environment, where designs go through multiple iterations before employment. The best example is the design critiques conducted every week at the 1Cademy UI Design weekly meetings.

- Running a UI design critique is a challenge, requiring you not only to explain decisions, but also to listen carefully to other ideas.

- Start by setting specific principles and providing everyone with a clear understanding of the intention of the design being critiqued.

- The following concept nodes breakdown a few standard principles that maybe applied to any design critique as well as those that need to be applied specifically to a UI Critique.

Principles For Running A Great UI Critique

- It is important to be respectful of the opinions and skills of people at the table to avoid the critique to degrade into hostility.
- Before starting, it is important to designate people in your team carry tasks like presenting the design, taking notes during the critique and moderate the questions.
- Remind people about the goals of the project and what the critique should cover to avoid the critique to be derailed from the primary purpose of the discussion.
- Also remind the participants about the target audience of the website.
- Avoid coming up with "THE ANSWER" to solve the problems mentioned in the critique. Remember that you goal is to collect issues and discuss multiple potential solutions.
- Have the notetaker review the takeaway tasks or the action items to ensure that everyone is on the same page for the next critique.

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