The art of asking
(the right) question 🤔

Dima Vishnevetsky

About me

Dima Vishnevetsky

📐  UX / UI Designer

🖼  Media Developer Expert @Cloudinary

👨‍🏫  #HackathonMentor

🎓  Lecturer

🗣  International Tech speaker

👨‍💻  Front End Expert

Co-founder of

Vue.js Israel community leader

Ask Questions

Asking Questions is NORMAL!

Don't bombard others with meaningless questions that can be answered with a simple Google search

I've had people ask me questions, and when I copy and paste their questions into Google, the first result answers the question 100%.

😕

Build your problem-solving, debugging, research, and Googling skills.

Do you want to see an example?

Read

Read your errors

  • Identify the bug
  • Determine the location
  • Understand the cause(s) 
  • Outline possible fixes
  • Implement the possible fixes

Read the Documentation

Search

Search in the right place

  • Google
  • StackOverflow
  • MDN
  • ...

Use tricks

site:developer.mozilla.org css custom properties

Ask

Ask effective questions.

construct your questions in a way that will not only give you the answer you want but also make it easy for the recipient to answer.

  • Ask the right person
  • Describe the "problem" you have encountered
  • Add Your thoughts on what you think might be wrong (based on your research)
  • Add research efforts - links to resources you have checked and solutions you have tried already
  • Use tools like CodePen, CodeSandBox
  • Add screenshots where necessary

Today, asking questions is part of my job.

Dima Vishnevetsky

@dimshik100

www.dimshik.com

Thank you

The art of asking (the right) questions 🤔

By Dima Vishnevetsky

The art of asking (the right) questions 🤔

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