The Studio Crit

Every week ends the same way: you bring the actual running site, deployed and live, to the studio and walk the room through how you built it. Not a slide deck of what you meant to build — the real thing, in Chrome, at whatever state it was in at the cutoff.

That's the part of the course that makes it feel less like an assignment and more like a critique session in a design studio: your peers see the prototype, hear the calls you made and the corrections you fed the agent along the way, and can ask about the moment that actually mattered instead of the polished summary of it.

It also means there's nowhere to hide a broken build behind "it works on my machine" — the deployed URL is the artefact, so the fun and the accountability are the same mechanism.