Interview Question Generator
Builds structured interview guides for user research, hiring, or journalism: icebreakers, core question arcs, behavioral formats (STAR), scenario probes, follow-up techniques, and scoring rubrics. The rubric inclusion matters most for hiring — unstructured interviews are barely better than chance, and consistent questions with anchored scoring are the fix the research supports.
The Prompt
Design structured interview guides for user research, hiring, or journalism. Includes opening icebreaker questions, core competency probes, behavioral question format (STAR method), scenario-based questions, follow-up probe techniques, time allocation per section, scoring/rubric framework, bias mitigation checklist, note-taking template, and post-interview debrief structure. Covers UX user interviews, customer discovery calls, and technical hiring panels.
When to Use It
- Standardizing hiring interviews so candidates are compared on the same evidence rather than different conversations.
- User research sessions where leading questions would corrupt exactly the signal you're paying to collect.
- Preparing journalistic or podcast interviews with an arc that builds toward the hard question instead of opening with it.
Tips for Better Results
- 1For user research, ask about past behavior, never future intent — "walk me through the last time you..." beats "would you use..." because people are terrible at predicting themselves.
- 2Write the follow-up probes into the guide ("tell me more about that decision") — the insight is always two questions deeper than the scripted one.
- 3In hiring, score independently before discussing with other interviewers; group deliberation before individual scoring is how consensus bias eats structured interviews.
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