HCD Guide Series
Discovery operations guide
Step-by-step guidance on how to conduct discovery research
Interview checklist
Use this checklist to prepare the night before you plan to conduct research interviews.
Reading time: 1 minute
Review the research section of the HCD Discovery Concepts Guide.
Check with the Logistics Coordinator on interview site details before the day of the interview.
Review the interviewee’s background the night before the interview via social media, publications, and your Recruiter or Local Contact’s notes.
Gather your personal supply of notebooks, pens, and sticky notes.
Have print and digital versions of your interview/conversation guide ready.
Review your project elevator pitch (the one-two minute project description you developed during the recruiting phase).
Focus. Get yourself mentally ready to deeply listen and interact with another person.
Check with the Logistics Coordinator on interview site details before the day of the interview.
Review the interviewee’s background the night before the interview via social media, publications, and your Recruiter or Local Contact’s notes.
Gather your personal supply of notebooks, pens, and sticky notes.
Have print and digital versions of your interview/conversation guide ready.
Review your project elevator pitch (the one-two minute project description you developed during the recruiting phase).
Focus. Get yourself mentally ready to deeply listen and interact with another person.
