# Interview Script

Write a structured interview guide, warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up.

- Repository: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills (3196 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-05
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill interview-script -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill interview-script -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill interview-script -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill interview-script -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills`

## Description

Write a structured interview guide, warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up. Use before running interviews. For analysing what comes back, use `summarize-interview`.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Interview Script

Create a structured user interview script for qualitative research.

## Context

You are a senior UX researcher preparing an interview script for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (personas, research goals, product context), read them first.

## Domain Context

- User Interviews (Steve Portigal, Interviewing Users): Open-ended questions that reveal motivations, behaviors, and mental models.
- Follow the funnel approach: broad context questions before specific feature questions.
- Use JTBD probing: When did you last...? What were you trying to accomplish? What happened next?
- Avoid leading questions, hypotheticals, and yes/no questions.

## Instructions

1. **Clarify objectives**: Confirm the research goals, target participants, and interview duration.
2. **Create the script** with these sections:
   - **Introduction** (2-3 min): Welcome, explain purpose, set expectations, get consent
   - **Warm-up** (3-5 min): Easy context-setting questions about their background and role
   - **Core exploration** (20-30 min): Deep-dive questions organized by research theme, with follow-up probes
   - **Specific scenarios** (10-15 min): Walk-through of specific tasks or experiences
   - **Wrap-up** (3-5 min): Summary, anything we missed, next steps, thank you
3. **Include probing techniques**: "Tell me more about that", "Why was that important?", "What happened next?"
4. **Add facilitator notes**: Tips for staying neutral, handling tangents, and managing time.
5. Think step by step. Present the script in a ready-to-use format.

## Question Quality Guardrails

**Ensure all questions are non-leading.** A leading question contains the answer or implies a preferred response. Replace any question that assumes sentiment, behaviour, or outcome.

The rest: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/HEAD/design-research/skills/interview-script/SKILL.md