Guest Brief
Welcome to Design Discipline.
Design Discipline is an independent design research publication produced by Dr. Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, PhD in interaction design.
You are invited to our podcast with world-class creatives, leaders, and scholars whose experiences are valuable to our audience of young designers.
Contact Info
Please contact me if you have any questions, requests, or updates. You can reach me as follows:
E-mail: baytas@weatherlight.com
Phone number given privately
Schedule Your Online Recording
First, I recommend we do a short intro call to get acquainted and check our technical setup. Please schedule the intro call here. (Skip this if you have podcasting experience and we are sufficiently acquainted.)
Please schedule your 90-min recording session here:
Before Recording
I recommend you send me an email with:
Current topics you’re excited about (e.g. a new book, product, or project)
Your "greatest hits" stories (important, powerful, funny, etc.), loved by your audiences in the past
Anything you'd like to avoid talking about
During Recording
Time
The recording will take 60 to 90 minutes.
I am in Sweden, in the Central European Standard Time zone.
I try to have nothing scheduled after our session. If we enjoy talking and want to keep going, or have technical issues that burn time, I can accommodate.
Format
Feel free to swear, rant, go off-topic, reveal trade secrets, ask questions, talk about private things... We can remove these afterwards. But we cannot add anything new.
Please tell stories! We do talk about abstract ideas, but I will often ask for stories that happened to you or people you know, to illustrate the ideas.
Tech
Do not use a wireless microphone, especially AirPods. A good external microphone is best, but Mac microphones will do.
After Recording
We edit to keep episodes as short as possible. We remove “umm” sounds, repetitions, etc., while still maintaining natural conversation. We aim to make you sound smart, and keep our audience listening.
You will receive a link to the final cut, ahead of publication, and have the chance to abort if you really need to.
Frequently Asked Interview Questions
If you do an 80-20 analysis of the things you did to advance as a designer, what was the 20% that produced 80% of the results?
What places and tools, including software, do you spend most of your time with?
Recommendations for books, movies, YouTube, podcasts, articles...
Tell me a story from your childhood that informs your current work.
How did you find out that design is something you can do for work?
What is something that is obvious to you but not to other people?
What is a question about design that only you can answer?
Who do you look up to?
What is next for you?