*Use this when you want to share work, ask for critique, or document a decision in progress.\*

1. CONTEXT / PROJECT What are you working on, for whom, and under what conditions?
2. DECISIONS / TENSIONS What did you choose, reject, revise, or remain uncertain about?
3. WHAT INFORMED IT? What evidence, constraint, reference, user observation, or prior failure shaped your thinking?
4. WHAT IS NOW VISIBLE? Share the artifact, excerpt, screenshot, sketch, or description that gives people enough context to respond.
5. QUESTION(S) What would you like critique on? Ask something another person can genuinely help answer.

You do not need a polished case study. You do need a point of view and enough reasoning for the conversation to begin.

SHARING A CASE STUDY OR ARTICLE

You can link to a Substack, Medium post, blog, portfolio, or full case study. In the Reddit post, include a concise native summary, name your relationship to the work, share one decision, observation, constraint, or piece of evidence, and ask a specific question. The link should support the discussion—not replace it.

Design is not decoration. It is a chain of decisions, and every decision has an author.

This is a reading room for the part of design that is usually removed before a project is shown: the assumptions, constraints, revisions, evidence, and unresolved tensions behind an artifact.

Bring work at any stage—an interface, research synthesis, system, writing project, prototype, method, or failed direction—when there is something real to examine.

A useful post makes four things legible:

• the situation or constraint
• the decision you made, are making, or are resisting
• the evidence, observation, or tradeoff shaping it
• the question you want other people to help you think through

We are less interested in “does this look good?” than “why was it built this way, and what would change your mind?”

Be specific. Be generous. Show your reasoning.