Design committee: what it is, how it affects overall UX & what we can do better?

Design committee produces a range of assumptions about what should take priority in a design project, without having the facts to back up those assumptions.

Design committee is happening when design leaders compromise between the requirements and opinions of the participants in design process. This is happening when team do not agree early on design scope - or worse, when they lack a unifying vision about a product.

It is surely important to get feedback throughout the design process, and there’s no issue in collecting feedback from several individuals - as long as the final decision maker uses their judgement to decide what feedback to implement, what might be best kept for another time, and what needs to be scrapped. Experienced designers will lead clients through the design process; if it works the other way around, the end-product is rarely what is best for users. You should utilize a mixture of your own knowledge and experience and take learnings from the opinions of others to inform your design to find the best solutions.

Darko Stanimirović, Dragan Kovačević and Milovan Jovičić discuss about the topic.