The Power of Why? – Episode 099 - a podcast by Brandi Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week Michelle wants to know about “Why?”. Why is it so important, when, where, and WHY do you ask why when you are designing. We also chat about Fred Armisen, Donald Miller, and Shakespeare, buckle up, lol.



Music This Week:

Michelle’s song: “Graduate” by Third Eye Blind

Brandi’s song: “Lisztomania” by Phoenix

 

Michelle’s Week:

Michelle started her week by getting to see Fred Armisen live on stage. For those of us who do not know who that is he is a creator of many things. He was a member of SNL for a few seasons and a cast member of Portlandia. So that really blessed her week. Then she got to go to a baseball game with family which was fun even though she is not a huge sports fan. And finally, Michelle’s daughter graduated from PreK! So exciting but Michelle had a bit of an emotional day.

Brandi’s Week:

Brandi is still working on her website. Very necessary work since it keeps breaking. Right now she’s really working on what the goal of her website will be. To help figure that out she has been going through a lot of Donald Miller‘s videos. Also, Brandi wants to start to bring something new to her week, where she brings some new things that are happening in the design world. This week Brandi has heard from Folger Shakespeare Library Podcast that they are bringing VR Shakespeare performances. You can check out that podcast if you want to learn more about it. And Brandi also brought up the Design Observer podcast where they talked about Facebook taking away the blue bar making the APP look so much cleaner. Go and listen to that podcast as well to hear a really cool theory about why Facebook could be making all these changes. 

Takeaways about why:



* Questioning your decisions checks your motives.

* Asking why allows you to have a backbone to understanding what you’re doing. Once you understand it you can then more easily explain it to others.

* Asking why is going to be in every part of the process when you are design problem-solving.

* Asking why is beneficial to you.

* When you are answering why the answer needs to have a non-feelings answer. It needs to have a logical answer.

* Ask why based on your problem. 

* Ask why until you can’t ask yourself why anymore. 

* The deeper you can go with asking why gives more depth to your design.

* Continue down the rabbit hole of why.

* Asking why doesn’t leave the equation, regardless of how experienced you are.



 

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