However, I am undecided as to whether ‘pushing’ for critique is useful. Your techniques here are inviting people to find something wrong. What if they feel they have to say something in order to look useful in the meeting? I think that this happens a lot.

My question is, how do you perform this approach without actually seeming unconfident in your design?

I imagine you would get lot’s of un-useful feedback like ‘can you make the logo a bit bigger and more to the left…’ and ‘I’m not sure about the orange colour you’ve used on the buttons’…

And then you either have to defend all your decisions and make people feel like their feedback is not going to change the design, or you take their feedback, change your design accordingly and it becomes ‘ design by committee ‘.

I don’t know what the answer is… especially where time is limited.