How to use the User Interview Guide Generator.
Ask about actual behavior before hypothetical preferences. Neutral follow-ups reveal more than questions that invite agreement with the proposed feature.
Make the workflow fit your task.
Choose the decision the interview should inform and ask about recent, concrete behavior. Sequence neutral questions and follow-ups around actions, difficulties and consequences, avoiding prompts that advertise the proposed solution.
- What you provide
- Research objective and participant profile.
- What you get
- Neutral interview questions with follow-up probes.
See the input and the result.
Illustrative input and output · a teaching example, not a live WebAct run
Example input
Research goal: understand supplier-update reviews. Generate neutral questions about a participant's most recent update, errors and handoffs.
Completed example
1. Tell me about the last supplier update you reviewed. 2. What did you do first, and what happened next? 3. Where did you need to compare or verify information? 4. Did anything unexpected occur? Please walk me through it. 5. Who else was involved before the update was accepted? 6. What would you want to preserve if that process changed?
Load this input into the prompt, then copy it to WebAct to try the task. Your result may differ from the illustration.
Decisions and troubleshooting.
When should I ask hypothetical preference questions?
Use them carefully after understanding actual behavior. A stated preference about an imagined feature is different from evidence of an existing need.
Why do participants keep agreeing with the proposed feature?
Remove leading descriptions and ask about their last relevant experience. Neutral questions give them room to describe a different problem.
Try it with your own source.
Replace the example with your material in the task prompt. Keep the requirements you need, then copy the task into WebAct.
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