Hi! I basically don’t post here anymore but if you’re wanting to hear Did I Do That?’s season 8 premiere with the hilarious and brilliant Sam O’Leary (and hear why I’m stepping by back from socials), the best place to be is on the show’s Substack! schumacher.substack.com

…we hope. Season 8 of Did I Do That? is on our doorstep, but while we wait for it to arrive in just three weeks time, we’re sharing another back catalog favorite with Eason Yang! Give it a listen anywhere you get podcasts or on the web at dididothat.design.

Happy new year! 🎊 To kick off 2026, Did I Do That? Is asking your help to shape the future of the show! Find our listener survey at tiny.cc/thatsurvey On the feed, we’re sharing a past favorite that might be new to you, our 2023 episode with the great Mallary Wilson. Enjoy!

Hey Bluesky—I'm back! What did I miss? Since I was last here, we wrapped up Season 7 with incredible, fun guests including James Junk, Ryan Swedenborg, and Mariah Baranby-Norris chatting about their design mistakes! Give it a listen, maybe? ▶️ dididothat.design/seasons/7

Had a really rad time talking to Sean on this podcast that made me dredge up a story of participating in Odyssey of the Mind in 3rd grade.

Ron Bronson (Former Head of Design at 18F) joins Sean to talk about his design mistakes, as well as what happens when sketch comedy and engineering sprints collide, Apple’s thinnest new product, and the dangerous allure of ribbon cuttings.

Type designer Chris Skillern (@tulseytype.bsky.social) joins Sean to talk about his design mistakes, as well as forgotten Saturday morning kids shows, circle drawing, and Italic character sets. Listen below or wherever you get podcasts!

It’s our season 7 premiere! Illustrator, cartoonist, and author @gemmacorrell.bsky.social joins Sean to talk about her design mistakes, as well as Beano’s "Attitude" era, copying the Old Masters, and Patience & Fortitude. Listen wherever you get podcasts or at dididothat.design!

Seattle! 🏆 If you've been wanting to see a very silly upside-down design award show, have I got the event for you! I'm returning to ‪Seattle Design Festival‬ this Saturday for "DIDT Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel! It's going to be a great time—8/16 at 1pm in Lake Union Park!

First Steps is turning 3?! Where does the time go? Gabe and Sean are joined by our favorite Texan, Mycah Brandley, to talk through where emo meets oil, Taco Bell pastels, and prosciutto posters. Plus: Gabe’s Gauntlet and Design Student Confessions! Listen below or wherever you get podcasts!

First Steps is already onto its second steps! Gabe and Sean are joined by musical director Nica Mork to talk puppet-making, Korean skincare aesthetics, and how Bruce Wayne lost his fortune. Plus, design student confessions & more! - Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you get your podcasts!

Hey, did you know I made a podcast with my design students and you can hear it right now? Probably not, because I forgot to post it here two weeks ago! But it’s super good and the first episode is out now at dididothat.design!

Could it be? Did I Do That?’s season 6 finale is also our especially nice 69th episode?! In this world, it’s possible! Colin Strandberg joins Sean to talk vehicle wraps, The Family, and Sonic’s wallet woes. Listen wherever you get podcasts or at dididothat.design!

How much fire is too much for a T-shirt design? Find out Thursday from the special guest on our season 6 finale! Hear it tomorrow wherever you get podcasts or on the web at dididothat.design!

Say goodbye to solvable problems because Did I Do That? is BACK! Thom Hines (Professor of Interaction Design at @psugd) joins Sean on the pogcast to talk about early 2000s burner culture, fake search engines, and the tireless Tom Hanks. Listen here: dididothat.design!

Whose design journey started because they chose a marathon gaming session over their internship interview? Listen Thursday to find out—Did I Do That? is back with a brand new episode! Hear it tomorrow wherever you get podcasts or at our site, dididothat.design!

Eager to hear a new Did I Do That? Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a little longer—our next episode will be dropping Thursday, June 5. Sorry about that!

Let a new Did I Do That? light a fire under your ass! Legendary illustrator Lisa Congdon joins Sean to talk about what’s in teachers’ dreams, poetry awards, and hamster wheels. - Listen and subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts!

Whose creative busyness got in the way of their creativity and their business? Listen Thursday to a new Did I Do That? to find out! - Hear the show at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

We’re wreaking havoc on a new Did I Do That?! Advertising idea guy and art dude Peter Yue joins Sean to talk about Jeff Bezos’ hedge fund, Las Vegas bartenders, and the most terrifying thing Gen Z found inside Pandora’s Box. — Listen and subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you get podcasts!

Which ad legend switched majors so late in college that he may as well have been going for his M.D.? Let this be your prescription to listen tomorrow and find out—new episodes drop on dididothat.design or whenever you get podcasts!

It's been a jam-packed week, but we still need to share the Cursed Comps for Kel Lauren's episode! Kel and Sean talked about anniversary cereals, the intersection of goth and twee, and what a rock star does with three grand. It's a great listen! dididothat.design

This past weekend, we suffered a break-in at PSU, which included the Rat's Nest, the show's recording studio. I'm safe and sound, but the damage included equipment pretty vital for recording the show—namely, the stuff that actually does the recording. You definitely need that, it turns out.

Have Gunther pour you a hot cup of cereal, because our little indie show has hit season 6's midpoint! Kel Lauren joins Sean to talk about anniversary cereals, the intersection of goth and twee, and what a rock star does with three grand. Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you cast pods!

Cursed comps from our Ben Barry have just hatched! Check them out and listen—we talked about edible arrangements for Spring, the secondary market for guillotines, and realizing that it’s time (for Frasier) to move on (from the hit NBC sitcom Frasier). Find it at dididothat.design & other pod places!

Feeling too arty for the nerds and too nerdy for the artists? Have we got the sweet spot for you! Ben Barry joins Sean to talk about edible arrangements, the secondary market for guillotines, and realizing that it’s time (for Frasier) to move on (from Frasier). Listen at dididothat.design!

Did I Do That? is going back to school! Bob Aufuldish (of Aufuldish & Warriner and CCA) joins Sean to talk about designer golfballs, the challenge of being taken seriously as a young professor, and typeface impulse buys. 🌁 Listen and subscribe wherever you get podcasts or at dididothat.design!

Whose scrappy strategy for getting through design school accidentally kickstarted their teaching career? Listen in tomorrow and find out in the last of our Bay Area episodes! - Subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

I’ve been calling the three images I make from each episode’s description “cursed comps” to myself for a while. These 3 were taken from our latest ep with Alyssa Walker! Check out dididothat.design to read that description and maybe understand what’s going on here?

Listening to the latest @dididothat.design episode this morning featuring Creative Director at Wired, Alyssa Walker. www.dididothat.design/episode/rest...

We’ve clawed our way to San Francisco for the season 6 premiere of Did I Do That?! The incredible Alyssa Walker (Creative Director at @wired.com) joins Sean to talk about where new toys come from, grind mode, and the Miyazaki of Rite Aid. Listen at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts!

Which designer shared this strategy for getting through their hardest creative moments on Did I Do That?'s season 6 premiere episode? Where did Sean go to record it? Listen in tomorrow and find out! Subscribe at dididothat.design or wherever you find podcasts.

Introducing the new (and kinda, sorta) improved Did I Do That? Website! With a fresh coat of paint to match the new show art comes a bunch of new features: places for new listeners to find episodes to start with, an improved catalog sorter with better guest profiles, and a true home for Fontroversy!

What does it mean to be a designer? Re-Introducing Did I Do That?. Season 6 drops March 6—find it wherever you get podcasts!

Feeling hungry? Ali Hart's new show ‪The Snack Table (which I guested on) takes some of the strangest snacks out there and gives them the taste test you frankly may have both wanted to see and feared in equal measure. It's so fun—give it a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC89...

To kick off 2025, Did I Do That? is turning back the clock back to the waning days of Brat Summer for Fontroversy, live at the AIGA Design Conference! Lena & I talk through type’s best known knock-off(?), Arial. Give it a listen—it’s so much fun! www.dididothat.design/episode/font...

Finale be damned—I’m still putting out new-ish stuff! Today in the feed, the Did I Do That? live show at Seattle Design Festival with guest Terry Marks is up on stage! It’s a great fun time and hard to imagine we recorded it OUTSIDE given the current temps. Listen at dididothat.design!

It’s the finale of Did I Do That? Season Five and our 3rd anniversary—this really must be the best of both worlds! Ely Kim joins Sean to talk about childhood limousine dreams, casino carpet, and memorable fast food mascots. Be sure to listen through to the end! dididothat.design/episode/visu...

Diving back into the edit this morning on what is easily the most ambitious episode I’ve ever done for Did I Do That’s 3rd anniversary. If you’ve been looking for a good time to tell a friend about the show, this is probably it! Listen in tomorrow!

(I also make terrifying “comps” for each episode around topics that come up in the conversation, so you’ll have to listen to know what the heck these are all about)

My most recent episode is a super fun one, and full of great stories about moving away from design to open up other creative possibilities in your life. Plus, we talk a lot about both the Muppets and Five Guys for complicated reasons. Maybe give it a listen? www.dididothat.design/episode/mupp...

Hi Bluesky! No idea if I’m actually going to use this thing regularly, but good to say 👋 I make a comedy podcast about the mistakes designers make over their careers. I know that tonally that sounds a bit like Nuts & Gum, but it’s fun, funny, AND informative, guaranteed!* *not guaranteed