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20231201

Interview questions by category.

What do graphic designers do all day

What are your day to day activities as a designer? Have these changed in your lifetime?
How did you imagine design work before you started working in the industry, can you give an example of a typical (imagined) task?
What tools do you use?
What kind of computer do you use?
what email client do you use?
What tools give you joy?
Have you ever paid your hourly/daily rate to do something for an hour/day? How did it feel?
Do you keep track of the hours you work? For who? Do you ever get it wrong? Why?
Why did you become a designer? But why did you become a designer?
Do you ever dream about work?
Imagine your hands as the seat of your consciousness. Focus on them as the centre of you: your sensations, your emotions, your thoughts, your actions, your desires. Can you describe the day you have had since the moment you woke up through your hands?
Inside your computer, where do you feel most at home? What makes it homely? Are there stressful environments in your computer? Do you ever feel afraid in your computer? Brave?

and why do they do it

Are there beings in your studio other than humans? Animals? Plants? Fungi? Spirits? What effects do they have on your daily tasks? What effects do your daily tasks have on them?
Do your daily tasks affect the world outside your studio? Does the world outside your studio affect your daily tasks?
What motivated you to become a designer before and what motivates you now?
Do graphic designers have souls?
Yer probably mad busy at the moment are ye?
Why do you design?
Best shape?
Favourite colour?
Do you ever experience design thinking? What coping mechanisms have you developed for it?
What do the grids mean?
What is design for?
What does design do?

and what does "graphic design" even mean?!????!!1!?

Did you go to art school? Why?
Now why are you a designer?
Who lives next door to design?
Does design have a dad?
What is a designer?
Are you an artist? What makes you say that?
Why are you a designer?
What smell do you associate with deisgn?
Why are you still designing?
Why do you call yourself a designer?
Do you have a job?
Are you a craftsperson?
Are you a technician?
Are you a programmer?
Are you an advertiser?
Can you tell me about something you are designing?
Can you tell me about something you designed?
How have you been a designer?
What do you think is the traditional narrative of what designers do? Is it different from the reality of day to day practice? If so, how does it differ?
What do you think is the narrative today? How has it changed?
How does the current narrative differ from your day to day reality?

20231129

Attached an example of a consent form (and an info and debrief sheet which is overkill in your case).

Some example questions including ones you mentioned for the semi-structured interview to add to the two questions:

Can you describe the day that you've had so far through your hands? (blur working versus non-working time)
What are your day to day activities as a designer, and which of these are different from how you imagined your day to be as a student,
How did you imagine design work before you started working in the industry, can you give an example of a typical (imagined) task?
Can you explain if that example task became part of your daily work?
What motivated you to become a designer before and what motivates you now?
What keeps you from career change or could you change careers if you wanted to?
What dp you think is the traditional narrative of what designers do? Is it different from the reality of day to day practice? If so, how does it differ?
What do you think is the narrative today? How has it changed?
How does the current narrative differ from your day to day reality?
What tools do you use? (hands on practical way talk about what you do)
What kind of computer do you use, what email client, etc and
What tools give you joy?

Interview questions

Can you tell me the story of your hands since the moment you woke up? What have they touched, what positions have they been in relative to your body, what actions or gestures have they performed?
Why do you design?
Have you ever paid your hourly/daily rate to do something for an hour/day? How did it feel?
Do you keep track of the hours you work? For who? Do you ever get it wrong? Why?
Why did you become a designer? But why did you become a designer?
Do you ever dream about work?
I would like you to imagine your hands as the seat of your consciousness. Focus on them as the centre of you: your sensations, your emotions, your thoughts, your actions, your desires. Can you describe the day you have had since the moment you woke up through your hands?
Now why are you a designer?
What do the grids mean?
What is a designer?
Why are you a designer?
Why are you still designing?
Why do you call yourself a designer?
What are you designing?
What have you designed?
How have you been a designer?
Are you designing right now?
Can you stop please?

A debrief sheet. De-briefing designers. No more brief. This wasn't in the brief. What happened? You've been debriefed: this could be very embarrassing in some interpretations. Brief is to do with time and making things short or abbreviated or shallower. But also "a writing issued by authority" its to do with power and control. And its something written.

Are there beings in your studio other than humans? Animals? Plants? Fungi? Spirits? What effects do they have on your daily tasks? What effects do your daily tasks have on them?

Do your daily tasks affect the world outside your studio? Does the world outside your studio affect your daily tasks?

Do you ever experience design thinking? What coping mechanisms have you developed for it?

Favourite colour?

Best shape?

Inside your computer, where do you feel most at home? What makes it homely? Are there stressful environments in your computer? Do you ever feel afraid in your computer? Brave?

Yer probably mad busy at the moment are ye?

Did you go to art school? Why?

Are you an artist? What makes you say that?

Do graphic designers have souls?

What am I trying to find out? The physical the banal the everyday activities designers spend their time doing. Embodied and situated investigation of the term graphic design as a way of exploring what the term means today, does it match with prescribed definitions, in what ways is it different? Do these actions have effects on the world, the person carrying them out as well as clients, users, assembly line workers, consumers, creative directors, printers, family members, friends, colleagues, animals, fungi, plants. The metaphysical framework that designers place themselves in. The myths and mystical beliefs they navigate the world through. Their understanding and management of time. The meanings they attach to their practices and activities.