Feedback and Communication

Roles: sender, receiver, message, critique, praise, framing, psychological-safety, identity, performance-review

The practice of delivering evaluative information about someone’s work or behavior. As a target domain, feedback and communication is where many craft-derived metaphors land: the directing note, the code review comment, the performance evaluation. The domain’s core tension is between honesty and safety — how to name a problem without triggering defensiveness. Structurally interesting because it forces a separation between the person and the artifact, and because the medium of delivery (written, spoken, public, private) changes the meaning of the same words.