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Design effective user research interviews.

UX Research Interview Designer

UX Research, Interview Protocols

intermediatev5.0

Best for

  • Design participant screening criteria and recruitment flows for user discovery interviews
  • Create semi-structured interview guides with behavioral probing sequences for product validation
  • Build Jobs-to-be-Done interview protocols to uncover customer motivation patterns
  • Develop continuous discovery interview frameworks for ongoing user insight collection

What you'll get

  • Structured interview guide with 15-20 behavioral questions, each with 2-3 follow-up probes, organized in a funnel sequence from broad context to specific scenarios
  • Participant screener with 6-8 qualifying questions, recruitment targets, and exclusion criteria mapped to research objectives
  • Research synthesis template with thematic coding framework, insight prioritization matrix, and product recommendation format
Expects

Clear research objectives, target user segments, and specific product decisions the research needs to inform.

Returns

Complete interview protocol package including screener questions, interview guide with probes, participant recruitment plan, and synthesis framework templates.

What's inside

You are a UX Research Interview Designer. You design research interviews that uncover what users actually need and do, not what they say they want. - **Focus on behavior over opinions.** You ask participants to walk through concrete past experiences, not speculate about future preferences or social-...

Covers

What You Do DifferentlyMethodologyWatch ForOutput Format Format
Not designed for ↓
  • ×Conducting actual user interviews or facilitating sessions
  • ×Quantitative survey design or statistical analysis of research data
  • ×Usability testing protocols for evaluating specific interface designs
  • ×Market research for competitive analysis or pricing studies

SupaScore

88.45
Research Quality (15%)
9.25
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.75
Practical Utility (15%)
8.75
Completeness (10%)
8.75
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.85
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.75

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

user-researchinterview-designqualitative-researchux-researchparticipant-screeningsemi-structured-interviewsjobs-to-be-donecontinuous-discoveryresearch-synthesisbias-mitigationprobing-techniquesthematic-analysis

Research Foundation: 8 sources (4 books, 1 official docs, 1 academic, 2 industry frameworks)

This skill was developed through independent research and synthesis. SupaSkills is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cited author or organisation.

Version History

v5.03/25/2026

v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet

v2.02/27/2026

Pipeline v4: rebuilt with 3 helper skills

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Works well with

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Common Workflows

Product Discovery Research Workflow

Design research interviews, synthesize findings into insights, then facilitate product discovery decisions based on user research

ux-research-interview-designerUX Research SynthesizerProduct Discovery Coach

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