Design With us - Episode 8- UX Design problem solving methods and asking the right questions
Drew Bridewell and Jude break down three types of UX problems and a five-step method to investigate them: document what, where, when, why, and who, then empathize, learn, and synthesize. The episode includes two timed exercises where you write a problem, analyze it, and brainstorm solutions.
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Hello, hello, hello, everybody. Let's just switch over here to the camera. Hope everybody's having an amazing, amazing Father's Day. We have a special for you today which is I'm pretty excited about because it is about problems to drop my Sharpie. It's about problem solving and something that problem solving. And it's something that we have to do as designers and as makers as a part of like our day to day responsibilities and things that we do. And I think even as young adults like Jude here or anybody really, we have problems to solve and there's a lot of different ways to solve it. So today we're going to talk about three different ways to look at problem solving and we're going to go through, we're going to have a couple activities and it's going to be fun. How's that sound, Jude? Good. You ready?
Yes.
Do you need like any, anything before we get going? I'm good. All right, cool, cool, cool. So thanks for joining. If this is your first time joining design with us. Design with us is a show where Jude and I are making, creating and building things. And specifically this season we're working on building a roller world Roblox game, which is really exciting and really fun for us. But the last two weeks we've kind of taken a little bit of a break on the building and development side of things. We have a couple other things still work we're still working on. But this week is kind of like a special because it's Father's Day and I just wanted to pick a nice little fun topic to discuss.
Okay.
Okay, let's do this. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen and then we're just gonna kind of jump into. I have a presentation that we're gonna walk through and web activities and stuff. So this is similar to like a workshop or an hour class that I would do if I was teaching this problem. So let's just switch back over into presentation mode and. And then I'm gonna do screen.
That's pretty neat.
So let's just one, make sure that our, our guests can see this screen. So if you can see problem solving, a Father's Day UX learning special, they go ahead, go ahead and leave us a comment. All right. I just want to make sure that they can see what we got going on here. Jude.
Hello.
See, we'll be able to tell right here in a second and then we'll just get you back. Yeah. All right, cool. We're good. So today's, Today's Episode is about problem solving. A methods to solving problems and asking the right questions. All right, are you ready for this, Jude? All right, let's do this. Alright, so the goal today is to help you understand the problem solving, help you understand problem solving techniques that map directly to the role of a designer. Because, Jude, I don't know if you know this, but as a designer, every day I'm having to problem solve, problem solve, problem solve, problem solve. It's kind of like a thing that you do when you're a designer. Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Cool. All right, so what is this? What does it mean to solve problems? What do you think it means, Jude, when you need to solve problems? And make sure you speak up loud so they can hear you. What does it mean to solve problems.
Means making things better.
Making things better? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. We want to solve problems without actually also finding things that, you know, somebody might tell you, oh, I have a problem with this or I have a problem with that, and then you get to go and do some troubleshooting and try to figure out how to solve it. Does that make sense? Sweet. All right, so tell me about a problem that you solved recently. It could be anything. Yeah, it could be anything. And if one doesn't come to mind, then that's okay. I, we, I can give an example. If nothing just pops in your brain.
No, no, I mean, bro, I don't got no problem.
Yeah, well, okay, okay, cool, cool, cool. I think as far as a problem that you know that. Tell me about a problem that I've solved recently. So I'm working in a very, I have a very complicated project that I'm working on right now and I'm trying to get it out, I'm trying to release it out to the public. So what I'm deciding that instead of me having to do every, all the, all the responsibilities for this project, I'm learning about delegation, I'm learning about how to ask for help and I'm learning how to, to expand my reach as far as what I can do. So I had a problem, solve that problem. Does that make sense? Yeah, I mean, you just have the problems and you need to basically come up with a solution for how you want to do it. And you can come up with a lot of different ways. Alright, so was it an important problem? I think it was an important problem. But not all problems are super duper important. But I'm going to show you today how to actually think through that. And then I'm also going to talk about how do you Know, if it's a problem, I'm gonna talk about that too. And what does it feel like to solve problems? Have you ever solved a problem, June? You're like, oh, that felt pretty good. Like the satisfaction after you solve it.
Yeah, it feels like the war is over.
The war is over. This is good. We're ready to proceed. Yeah, I agree. It feels really good to work through problems. And then the benefit of doing that in a methodical way, or when you're thinking through how you can do it feels really good to come up with a solution to a problem. Sometimes you can. It can feel good, it can feel rewarding, it can feel impactful, like you're gonna make a big impact on something. It can feel super satisfying. And it can also bring purpose to you when you solve problems. Especially the bigger the problem, the bigger the reward, if that. Yeah, kind of makes sense. All right, so. And those. Cool. So those feelings help you define, like, your why, and they also connect you to your purpose. So sometimes when you're solving problems, it helps you. Oh, yeah, why was I solving this? And how is it connecting to, like, why I'm. Why do I want to do it? So for a UX designer, the huge point of this is like, the bullseye in the middle here. The bullseye is making sure that you're solving the right problem as a designer, because oftentimes, you know, you bring up your post it notes, you bring up all your design experiences, and you set off to do something really exciting. But if you're not solving the right problems, then it actually is just creating more. It could be creating more problems.
Yeah, I love that feeling. Yeah, tough.
Yeah, it's tough. All right, so there's a couple different problems that I want to talk to you about real quick. So one is the problems that are right in front of you. Like, these are problems that are, like, are happening right this second. So for example, let's say you realize that you have a dog, and this dog is chewing on your. On all your toys or chewing on all your sticky notes. And he's just, like, arrogant. And it happens over and over and over. That's happening right in front of you. You have a couple ways to solve that problem right away. The other ones are problems that you heard from, like, a friend or you heard from somebody else. And you need to verify those problems because you don't actually know if it's true or if you haven't heard from the source. You don't really understand. This can happen quite a bit in products or when Somebody says that, you know, this is a problem, but if you don't actually go and validate that problem, then it might not actually be a. A problem. All right. And then the third one is problems that are not explainable. Like, you're just like, why is this happening? And you need to do a lot more research and understanding for what it is. So this might be in product design. It might be like a user stopped using your product or stopped playing your game, and you don't really know why. So let's just say, Jude, in roller world, we create an awesome roller world experience, and then all of a sudden we start seeing people not playing it anymore. This is a problem that we need to do. We need to do more exploration on and figure out why it's a problem.
Use the big brain.
So that's three different types of problems. Do they all kind of make sense why they're different types of problems?
Yep.
All right. All right. Should we go forward?
Yes.
All right, let's do it. So each of these problems require a different method to solve it, and we're going to talk about that today. So problem number one. This was that problem that was right in front of you. Oh, boy. So this is that problem that requires immediate action. You have to gather and document, like, what you see. So let's just say I see this problem. I'm gonna. If I had a piece of paper, I could write down, okay, I see this problem and it's. And it's. It's happening here. And I need to look at it from different perspectives. And I also need to look at the problem objectively. Like, I need to look at the facts because I can't just make things up. Does that make sense?
Yep.
All right, cool. The second one again, problems that you've heard and need to verify, these are like, required investigations. Like, you got to get to the bottom. You need to verify. You need to put on your investigators hat, and you need to go in and look at, look at, like, where did this come from? Why is it happening? And then you need to gather and document. You need to review the sources, and you need to look at it again from different perspectives and again looking at it, looking at the facts. The third problem, remember, this is the one where it requires a little bit more investigation. You don't understand where it's coming from or why it happened. This requires what we call qualitative and quantitative data. So qualitative data is like, understanding, like, from people's voices and like what, like what they're explaining from a, an Emotional state. Like you. If I was to talk to you, like, how does this make you feel, Jude? And I was talking to you about that problem, that would be like a more of a qualitative assessment. And quantitative is like using data. Like, so say 100 of you. Judes, said the same exact thing, and you got that documented. That would be more quantitative data. So we could look at the numbers there and really assess. Like, oh, that's a big problem.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah.
Cool. Big brains.
Big brains. And then it's very similar. You know, you still want to look at it from different perspectives. So. But here's the problem. Like, how do you. Here's the problem of the problems. How do you know which problem to solve? Like, if it's you have this problem or you have problem number two or problem number three, and like, that's a big problem. That's a big problem. Like time or whatever, you're running late, what are you gonna do? Well, so the key is, like, when you dive into each of these problems, you can follow a simple recipe, and this helps you focus on solving the right problem. So when you get introduced or you get approached with a problem, if you follow this recipe, it can help you one kind of ease yourself into how you can go and approach it, but it also can help you be more informed before making a decision. Are you ready for this recipe?
The recipe is 3, 2, 1.
All right, here it goes. Recipe number one. So the first thing that you need to do is you need to know what is happening. What is happening? So this is a very easy question where I can just be like, what is happening? And you can just fill this, this out. What is happening? That's like documenting that the current problem. So if somebody comes to you, there's a problem with this. Jude, what's the first thing that you could do?
Where is it happening?
What? What is happening? And then where is it happening? So where is it happening? Is documenting. Okay? It's happening at 4pm every day when this certain situation happens. So this is like documenting like. Like, remember, because we're investigators right now, we're going in and we're understanding what and where this is happening. The third we got stopped crying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Booyah. I like that, man. Like, the energy. And when did it start happening? So you know what? You know where now you need to start seeing, like, well, when is this happening? And this is really important product design too, because if it's happening at the same point, at the same time over and over and over, then you found Part of the problem that's really important, then you need to know why. Why is really hard to think to figure out, Jude. But you can still ask the question and then who is it affecting? Like, is this problem affecting one person, Is it affecting two? Or is it affecting hundreds or millions or billions of people?
Trillions.
Trillions. Right, so, alright, here we go. So at this stage you're not trying to immediately solve a problem. So how many of you, and raise your hand, be honest, on the other side of this screen, how many of you have had a problem in your life and you just jump into it and start trying to solve it right away? I think we all probably do that. But this is going to be a recipe for when you start. It's a recipe for disaster. Yeah, maybe, but the thing is if you start by just not telling yourself, okay, I'm not going to jump right into this problem, I'm not just going to try to solve it right away. I'm going to listen and I'm going to try to understand it first. Okay, so your goal is to emphasize or empathize, learn and synthesize. So let's like just talk about these words for a quick second. So empathize, like trying to really put yourself in the shoes of the person who, or group of people who are experiencing this problem. This can help you really easily, like identify with what's going on in a more empathetic way. Have you heard, have you heard from about empathizing with people, Jude? Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's also a really important thing to do, especially like in today's, in today's climate with, with everything that's going on in the world, like there's a lot of stuff going on the world. This is something that is, is a key thing that you could do. The other thing is to like learn, like learn all those questions that we had earlier when we're learning about it and when we're synthesizing. I'm sorry, when we're learning about like what the problem is, this helps us be more informed about it. The last thing is synthesizing. So synthesizing is essentially like breaking down the information that you get. So if you got all those questions and you're an investigator and you're writing all these out, then you can start, oh wait, there's this problem, Jude. Look, there is, there's this other problem and now it's all starting to make sense. That's what synthesizing. When you're synthesized, synthesizing your information so we have activity number one, and this is going to take the entire team on the other side of the channel to be able to help this. Okay. So our activity number one is. It's called help me solve a problem. Are you ready for this? I'll help you. Yes. So what we're going to do is take three minutes on our time timer. One, two, three. And what we're going to do is we are going in here. Let me just make sure that. I want to make sure I can't tell Jude if they can actually see us. They might. They might only be able to see.
They can see us.
Oh, they can. Okay, cool. So I'm gonna set this for three minutes, and what Jude and I are gonna do on our post it notes. And if you have a piece of paper, go grab a piece of paper and just pause. You can't really pause it because we're live right now. But what we're gonna do is write down one problem that we have and we want help solving. And if you. If you have a problem and you want to put it in chat, we will make time at the end of this episode to try to help you brainstorm and help you get out of it. So, Jude, here's a. Here's a Sharpie.
Yep. I don't trust myself with this carpet.
Okay, here you go. You can use this one. All right, so what we're gonna do is write down a problem. So I wrote a few up here on the board. Like, I don't enjoy my lunch. I argue with my brother and sister too much. I'm always late. I struggle with X or I don't have enough time to learn how to X. X is just like, fill in the blank. Okay, Are you ready? Let's do it. Okay, we have a couple minutes, and we're gonna start right now. So if there's a moment of silence, that's okay. And I'm gonna write my problem. So.
Problems I need.
Yeah, something you need. Something you. You're. You're, like, struggling with or something you want to learn. And it's like card or. It could be any problem. It could be the. You know, something. Something like with training or something with sports or whatever. Any problems in your life or you pretty much got nailed.
I don't know. Problems. This is hard.
It's all right. Take your time. You have. You have. You have time. Oh, Eunice said I'm single now. That's okay, Eunice. We can help with that.
That's. Oh, God.
All right, so, Jude, if you. And if you, you can go ahead, I'll start with mine. One of mine was like, I need to make more time to learn aspects of WordPress. I am trying to build a brand new product right now on WordPress and there are a lot of plugins and a lot of things that I need to use. So that's a problem that I have is that I am already doing a lot of different things and I need to hunker down and focus and get this learning done so that I can ship that thing. So that's one of my problems. Jude, what's yours?
Jude can't think of a problem.
Jude can't think of a problem. Okay, well that's fine. Jude. This is like putting you on the spot. So we'll just keep going. Okay. And then we had a couple other ones. So let's just keep this show going.
Hit the sub button.
Alright, so now that we have our problem, so you take your problem, put it down on a piece of paper. So Jude, Jude can't think of a problem. So we'll figure that out. All right? So Jude, why can't you think of a problem?
Because I don't got no problems. What do you mean?
Okay, so then what you do is you. And we're going to take another five minutes with this problem and we're going to try to break this down even more. So try to do this yourself. Okay, so basically what you would do is have another five post its for like the what, the where, the when, the why and the who. And what you're going to do here is you're going to start thinking about your problem and being very intentional about how you could solve it. Too many problem is too many problems. Oh nice Bruno. Well guess what? We can even solve that. So if you could just try to pick one and think about it to yourself. You don't have to, you don't have to write it in on the channel, but thinking about, thinking about what these problems are and like think about what, what is happening right now? Where is this happening? Is it happening at home? Is it happening online? Online? Is it happening with your friends? When is it happening? Why, why do you, why could this be going down? And then who is it affecting? So then you take this and you go through each of these and you write down a little bit more details. Oh boy.
Wait, what is that? Now your handwriting is so hard. What is that?
Help me think. Help me think.
That's a. Yeah.
So Sebastian, that is something we could talk about. But, but probably not appropriate to talk about on the Live show right now. But I get what you're saying. I get what you're putting down right there. So it's a tea time for me. Hold on.
Tea time.
That got really interesting. All right, so I need. So for me, I need to make more time to learn WordPress. So what is happening? Well, I'm building something.
I can't think of problems. Think, think, think.
That's pretty good, man. If you ain't got no problems, that must be mean. I'm doing my job.
Do I have problems? I don't think I have problems.
All right, so I'm building something new. That's what it is. So where is it happening? It's happening everywhere. Everywhere. And if you're, like, a pro, if you're doing product design, this is something where, like, oh, this feature is not working. Why? What is happening? Well, people can't proceed to the next step because this is happening. That's the where. When is it happening? Well, it's happening when they need something. When the person needs to complete something. The why? Well, they're happy. They're not able to get to the next step because of this problem. That's your why. And then who's it happening to? It's the user, or in this. This experience, it's us. Okay, so we have a couple more minutes. Is everybody writing down their problem? If you haven't yet wrote down your problem, go ahead and do that.
Sebi, do you have a problem? Let's hear it. If you do. Okay.
Yeah. And if you have friends, you can do this with your friends and then also do this in a way where you can be supportive with one another and you could work together to. To do this. All right, let's see. So everywhere it's happening. When did this. Oh, well, it happened when I started working on this new venture, and it's happening to me. Okay, good. And this probably is easier if you're applying it to, like, a business or to, like, a school project or to, you know, it could be. Jude, when you're. You want to launch more videos, right? On your YouTube channel, that's a. That's a challenge. Right. And how could you solve that challenge? Right? So we're gonna come up with solutions here in a second, but we're right. Right now we're trying to understand it. Okay, so timer's about to go off, and now we're gonna actually move on to the next. No problems. All right. All right, man. All right, here we go. All right, so the timer's gonna go off. So now that we have that we're going to help you solve that problem. So for example, on the screen right here. So I needed to generate some hypotheses about which are educated guesses about how we can solve these problems. So one of them that we picked here is like I don't enjoy my lunch or I'm always late. A couple ideas below that in the blue post it notes are I need to cook your lunch or I need to give feedback to a parent or I need to give feedback to the principal. You know, there's other things that you can do there. Or I need to get a watch because I'm always late. Or I need to pair up with a friend to encourage better habits. And then my time timer which went off and then another way, I'm always late. Maybe I just need to leave earlier. Like those are possible solutions. So Jude, what we're gonna do, Instead of taking 10 minutes, what we're going to do is just take another like three minutes and we're gonna write down a bunch of ideas on how we can solve the problems. And I'm gonna write down a problem for you because I know that was hard to think about. So it's, I'm gonna write creating more content because that's what you said you wanted to do.
I did?
Yes.
Yeah, I did. Mm mm. I said that you did.
Alright, so what you're gonna do, here's some more post its. Here's some more post its for you. There you go. Post it. Post it. Heaven. So right now what I want you to do is think about some ideas that you can do to create more of that content. What's something that you could do? Do you want me to help you brainstorm?
I can do this.
Okay, you can do this.
Create more content. So what I have to do again.
Right, so right now, so this, this first, this first one where it says I don't enjoy my lunch, that is the problem statement which is yours is creating more content. That's the problem. Now the blue right here is the, this the possible solution. So what we're going to do is generate solutions around that. So the first one might be. I'll get you started. The first one might be I need to create a plan.
Create a plan.
A plan of when I should record. Yeah, here I show them. So create a plan. And that's an example. Another one might be. I need to create an idea board to pull new ideas from. Does that make sense? So I'm going to create an idea board to pull all my new ideas From. It's another example. So that's two. Can you think of a third? Maybe. Maybe another one would be, like, collaborate with other YouTubers.
Collaborate. That's a long.
Here, I'll do it for you.
Collaborate with multiple.
With other YouTubers.
Burrs.
So collaborate with other YouTubers. So what we just did in the short amount of time was we generated three possible solutions. Does that make sense?
Yes.
So what we're doing is. Well, first thing we did, we understood the problem. Now what we're doing is we're solutioning for the problem. All right, so now what we'll do is we'll discuss these three options that we just came up with, and we'll just talk about them within each other. And if. I know that you are on the other side of this magical screen right here. So if you want to comment or talk to us about ours, we have three, and we're being very, very open with you about what they are. And one is to create a plan of when we should record. The other one is to create an idea board to pull new ideas from. So this is basically like a sheet of paper that when we have a fun idea, like. Like, do you. Do you feel open to sharing, like, the. The film thing that you are working on?
Oh, yeah, sure.
Okay. Why don't you give it.
So just talk about it?
Yeah. Say just. Just for like a, you know, short. A short bit. Just talk about, like, what you're doing and. And that's an idea. So that idea could get stored in your idea board.
Yeah.
Okay, go ahead.
Okay. So this. This week, like, two days ago, or like, three, I was like. My friend was. So me and. Me and him, we were basically kind of. So we got our, like, favorite, like, shows, and if they have, like, intros, we try and do it. We try and do it in real life, or one of us films it and the other one does it. So I was the one who. It was kind of like making a movie, basically. He was the director and I was the. The actor. So, yeah, it was a lot of fun.
That was fun. Yeah. And so just being able to create these ideas and storing them is one way that you could. It could also help with creating more content. The other one is collaborating with other YouTubers. So if there's other YouTubers, which you've done a few collaborations already before, that's a good way to create more content, which is the core problem that you're trying to solve.
Yeah.
Cool. All right, let's just keep going. And if there's any questions on the channel. Feel free to let us know. All right, cool. So we did that. So, but how do we do, Jude? So how do we do here we have three ideas and I'm just going to show on. So if I just do drawing. So we have our ideas here. We have create. Create and collaborate. So it's good. After you have these, then you can. Here, let me go back to screen cap. Is it showing on the screen cap? I can't really tell.
Yes, it is.
Is it? Okay, cool, cool. So. So I think we did pretty good. And in a short amount of time, we have three ideas as far as what we could do. And if you time box this a little bit more, like I was just showing you five minutes or 10 minutes, you're gonna be in a really great spot to having a lot of good ideas that you can test and that you can try out.
Okay.
So is problem solving hard?
Yes.
Why?
I mean, I don't know. It's just when I try and solve my problems, it's just like. It's not easy.
It's not easy?
No. Problems are easy.
Yeah. It's actually. You're right. I think problem solving is hard. Is it fun trying to solve problems?
Depends what problem it is.
It depends on what problem it is, huh? Tell me more about that.
I mean, I mean, it depends. Like, is it. If it's an argument. Yeah, it's not gonna be fun. But if it's not an argument, maybe maybe like try to solve a problem with your friends. Like, where did the rock go?
Yeah.
Or just like, where did this thing go? Yeah, Put in the tree.
This is true. Yeah.
Could be fun.
Yeah. So solving problems is not always fun. It actually can be really challenging and it can cause you to have to confront things that you never wanted to confront. But it can also be very liberating once you do do it and once you do solve that problem. So that's just a. You know, it's challenging, but it can also be fun because the reward of solving a problem again is really nice. Really nice. All right, here we go. Let me just. All right. Is it easy?
It depends.
Again, it depends. You're right. You're right. It does definitely depend. But I think having a method or a process to being able to solve problems makes it less strain strenuous on you. Because when you have a little bit of a method or a recipe that you can follow, just like cooking, maybe making scrambled eggs or, you know, just whatever something that you do day in and day out, over and over and over, it can Be easy. You can just leave it G. It's fine. Alright, so let's break down what we accomplished today in this short little session here. So what we did, we shared a problem. We had, Some of us did, some of us didn't. We used a problem solving recipe which is, you know, the what, why, the how, the when it's happening, understanding and empathizing the problem and then learning about it so you can synthesize that information, you can like understand it. Then we got creative and generated some solutions for that problem. You can do this for any sort of problem that you have? Yes. Whether it be for problems in, at school, problems at work, problems in your product or problems at your house, you can use this. And you showed empathy. So key takeaways. So the insight that I want to share with you first, not all like proposed solutions that you come up with, like collaborate with YouTuber or make an idea board are going to work, but you have to be able to start somewhere because if you don't try or if you don't appro. Try to approach, trying to solve it, then nothing will happen. And if you don't have like a method for how you want to approach it, then you can feel a lot of confusion and you can maybe not net the type of results that you were really looking for. Number two, solving a problem is tough. Yeah. But showing empathy for people and taking people's emotions seriously is a really important thing because like we all are emotional, we have emotions for a reason and it's really important to respect those emotions and, and to really get to the bottom of them and to be empathetic to why people are experiencing those things. Is it pretty heavy? Hard? Yeah. All right, so we got a scenario thought. So this is kind of a fun thing to imagine. Okay, so imagine that 50,000 kids had a similar problem to the one that you stated today or the one that you were thinking about in your head or Jude, for example, say 50,000 kids were trying to make content this year. Like 50,000 new YouTubers are trying to come, to come to YouTube, but they fail. You think they fail?
No, they win it. They win it.
Yeah. So even, even they win or they lose. Like 50,000 kids say they're coming to YouTube today. How are they going to plan for that? If you're trying to get a YouTube channel right now, how are you planning for it? Like the first thing that you could do if you're trying to create some content is you create a plan. Okay, what am I going to, am I going to record weekly Am I going to record daily? Am I going to record monthly? What is my show about? What is it going to entail? Why am I even creating it? You know, you can start. Why do I want to do it? Why do I want to contribute to society and entertainment and gaming?
Should I do it?
Exactly. The other thing is like, the 50,000 kids, you know, they might also be like, well, I need ideas for these shows. You know, is the one idea that I have good enough for, like, is it good enough for me? Am I going to get bored of it? Or is it going to be something that I want to do for a while? The same thing happens in products and experiences. And. And that's just something that. To be thoughtful of. So let's just say again that those 50,000 kids had to pick one of these solutions that we generated today to solve the problem that they have. What. What would that do? If you had the, the responsibility that 50, 000 kids or people were going to use the, the problem that you. That came up with, like, your solution, what would you think about that?
I would think you would thank them.
Would you be a little. Would you be nervous that 50, 000 kids are gonna follow your.
Yeah. And they're gonna be. Jude, you didn't give me the right thing.
Liar. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the thing about that. This, like, if. Would you have still picked your solution if you knew that 50,000 people were going to dislike it? No, not dislike it, but just like if 50,000 kids were going to start on YouTube next week and they had three options. They could create a plan, they could create an idea board, or they could collaborate with you, do you think that you would still pick those solutions?
Yes, maybe.
Yeah. Okay, cool. But how would you have known that that was a right. That was right.
Because my brain is big.
Oh, yeah. Well, oftentimes it definitely is big. But when. When you don't know something, that's why you test it in design. That's why we were designers and that's why we. We prototype something and that's why we test something. Because we do have a huge responsibility. Because in design, the decisions we make can affect millions of people. So little short story, Jude, when I, I mean, I currently am a designer at Facebook, I work on products that are internal employees use. And the decisions that we make as a team affect literally about 50,000 or so people. So when we're designing experiences, we have to be very thoughtful about the, about the outcomes that we're designing. And the same thing, when I was@lynda.com or LinkedIn. It's the same thing when you're designing experience. You want to test it, you want to validate it before you give it to somebody. Because you don't know 100%. Like, you don't know, like, what's gonna, what's gonna, like, you know, what's gonna be the outcome. So you gotta be really thoughtful about it. And it's the same thing when you're solving problems and you're trying to figure out, you know, solutions for it.
Yeah, it's not too easy, isn't it?
It's not. All right, so great job. Any questions for the channel? I want to open it up for any questions about. About questions. And Eunice, if you, if you do want us to comment on that, we will, but it's definitely, it's definitely up to you, my friend. And, but anybody else in the chat, Sebastian, Bruno, if you guys have any questions, please feel free to let us know and then we will basically, you know, kind of pick up back on the show.
Yep. Yeah.
So wait a second.
You have three minutes on.
All right, so I'm. We're switched back, Jude. We're switched back to our camera. And what we're going to do is just kind of finish up the show and because it is Father's Day, we are going to end a little earlier today. Boom, boom, boom, boom. But if there's some other questions, just feel free. We're going to jump back over into our design with us file.
We went out like we do.
Yes. Yeah.
I want alive. You win at life. Everyone there wins at life.
That's right. All right, all right, here we go. Here we go. So we're back. We're back into our, our massive file where if you haven't. If you remember when we were working on Roller World, because we just finished. Oh, yeah, nice. Eunice, we're glad you're joking, man. That's funny. We were joking too, but we would have helped you anyway. Alright, so we're back into our file of design with us and we're talking about Roller World. And just as a reminder, Roller World is still active. What we're planning on doing in the next week or two is we're going to be getting our world over into an engineer. And the engineer's primary objective right now is to build the basic framework of the, of the, of the level when you first come into the hub. And that's going to be the adventure. It's gonna, I mean, it's gonna feel like an adventure park, but it's, it's gonna be more of what is it like a amusement park for us. And that's gonna be a lot of. Just a lot of fun to be able to see. I think some of the things that we're still. We're still needing to work on is the actual gaming mechanics of the player experience. So we did do a couple ideations of like, where. Where you'd be running and what you'd be doing. But we just need to get a little bit more into the actual, like, clickable prototype. And this just takes a little bit more time. You need kind of more than just like 30 minutes or an hour to kind of work through it. So that's some stuff that we're going to be working through, you know, in the coming weeks. And just, you know, we're taking our time with it because it's a lot of very tedious and detailed work, but we're making progress on it. And we also were playing with different logos and I'm not like super fond of the logos yet, but we'll kind of keep jamming on those and keep playing. But we could just kind of mess around and create some.
Yep, yep.
But I kind of want to do it inside of Illustrator and not inside of Figma, but. Yeah, inside of Figma. But we'll get to it. We'll get to it. Just thanks for being patient with us. But other than that, like, I think I want it. We want to end the show a little bit earlier today because it's Father's Day. We want to get back to playing and having a good time. So any other things that you want to, you want to share G before we, before we end? Because we did do the problem solving episode and that was a lot of fun for us. Did you. What do you think of this? This lesson?
It's this epic. Epic, Very epic.
This was the recipe. So when you're thinking about, like, when you have a problem next time, think about like, what is happening right now, where is it happening, when, why, who is it affecting? And then you'll be. You'll be in better shape to go solve your problems. So I think that's it for today. Hope you all had a haven.
Have amazing Father's Day.
Yeah, I hope you all have an amazing Father's Day. And I didn't even know that thing was on. Yeah. Hope you. Seriously though, enjoy. Enjoy your family. Enjoy the family time. Enjoy the time with your father. And to all the dads out there, this is a great time to be a dad. It's a great time to be. It's definitely a great time to be a kid. And. Yeah, and just, just big shout out to all the dads out there and keep, keep doing your dad duty. Have fun and we'll see you guys in the next episode of Design with us next week, 4pm and that's about it. So I will see it.
Bye.
