User:Ssstephen/interviews

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.