🛡️ How To Defend Your Design Decisions. With strategies to protect your work, avoid design by committee and pick battles wisely ↓

🚫 Avoid big surprises when presenting your work.

✅ Ask for feedback gradually, at different stages of the design.

✅ Strong decisions rely on data and research, not hunches.

✅ Attach your decisions to a goal, metric, or a problem.

✅ Show what’s possible short term, and your plan for the future.

✅ Re-iterate business goals before showing any of your work.

✅ Show the process that led you to your current design.

✅ Explain how your current decision impacts business goals.

✅ Highlight key takeaways from previous rounds of feedback.

✅ Highlight advantages and risks to show they’ve been considered.

🚫 Don’t fight an argument: find the problem brought into spotlight.

✅ You might be wrong: defend the project goals, not your work.

✅ Ask to articulate and explain the argument in detail.

✅ Have alternatives ready, and explain why they were discarded.

✅ Defer the decision: request to review it with your team.

🚫 One suggestion is a goldmine of other ideas waiting to be excavated.