interview-frameworks

# Interview Frameworks

## Overview

Frameworks for conducting effective user interviews including question design, interviewing techniques, and extracting actionable insights.

**Core Principle**: Good interviews come from great questions. Focus on past behavior and specific examples, not hypotheticals or opinions. Listen more than you talk.

**Origin**: Synthesized from Teresa Torres ("Continuous Discovery Habits"), Erika Hall ("Just Enough Research"), and Rob Fitzpatrick ("The Mom Test").

**Key Insight**: User interviews are the foundation of customer discovery. Good interviews uncover unmet needs, validate assumptions, and reveal the "why" behind user behavior that quantitative data cannot.

## When to Use This Skill

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- `research-ops` - For user interview guides and JTBD interviews

**Use when you need**:
- Customer discovery research
- Problem validation
- Solution validation
- Usability testing
- Feature prioritization research
- Understanding user workflows
- Jobs-to-be-Done research

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## Four Types of User Interviews

### Discovery Interviews (Problem Exploration)

**Purpose**: Understand problems, needs, contexts, pain points

**When**: Early product development, new market, problem validation

**Focus**:
- Current workflows
- Pain points and workarounds
- Unmet needs
- Context and constraints

**Example question**: "Walk me through how you currently manage projects for your team"

**Complete script**: `assets/interview-script-templates.md` (Discovery section)

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### Validation Interviews (Solution Testing)

**Purpose**: Test solutions, get feedback on concepts

**When**: After problem validation, before building

**Focus**:
- Solution fit with workflow
- Feature prioritization
- Willingness to pay
- Alternatives considered

**Example question**: "If we built [solution], how would that fit into your workflow?"

**Complete script**: `assets/interview-script-templates.md` (Validation section)

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### Usability Interviews (