Feedback works when it changes the next move

“I like it” and “it is not working” report a reaction but leave the next decision hidden. More usable feedback points to an observable encounter: where attention dropped, which transition confused, what expectation formed. The maker can then test a revision against that information without surrendering authorship to the reviewer’s preferred solution.

This is not a rule that all critique must be gentle, immediate or accepted. Expertise, trust, stage of work and cultural context matter, and premature feedback can narrow exploration. The mechanism is informational: specificity reduces the guesswork between response and revision. A practitioner can ask one question—“Where did you expect something different?”—then decide whether the answer serves the work being made.