A critiquing system is a tool that analyzes a design at hand and provides feed- back to help a designer improve the solution (Fischer, Lemke, Mastaglio & Morch, 1991; Oh, Gross & Do, 2008). Although the researchers of critiquing systems take the concept of ‘critiquing’ from the field of design, they lack a clear understand- ing of design critiquing. Most critiquing systems have focused on detecting errors, or opportunities for offering corrective feedback. For example, Argo (Robbins & Redmiles, 1998), SEDAR (Fu, Hayes & East, 1997), TraumaTIQ (Gertner & Web- ber, 1998) all provide users with only negative evaluations. However, even a brief look at how one-on-one critiquing.