[Ryo Chiba]

One of the most annoying things about putting together any sort of media (be it poster, animation, or website) on my team is that constructive criticism is few and far between. As I helped put together last year's website, I should have had people telling me all of the negative aspects of the site, but no one did. It's polite to nod and pretend everything looks alright, but when it comes down to it, it is this politeness that leads to mediocrity.

So, I look back our 2006 site with shame and disgrace. It's difficult to navigate, and it's simply a terribly visually unpleasing design.

To prevent this from happening to myself, and to other teams, we have a plan.

This year, our webteam will make screencast critiques of other interested FIRST teams' websites.

It's a win-win situation. We can learn from other teams' successes and failures. You can learn what we think could improve on your site.

Would any webteams reading this post be interested in having the usability, design, and general quality of their website critiqued with a generous helping of constructive criticism?