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Product Managers ยท User Interview Script

Talk out the questions for a user interview.

Who this is for

PMs, designers, and researchers who want interview questions that surface real behavior, not leading questions that confirm assumptions.

The moment this saves you

I run user interviews and accidentally ask leading questions like don't you think this is useful, so users just agree with me, and I walk away with false validation instead of real insight.

See it work

Messy spoken thought in. A clean, structured artifact out.

What you said

Building an interview script to understand how people currently manage their team's tasks before we build our feature. What I want to learn, how they actually do it today, what's painful, and whether they'd even change. I do not want to pitch our solution, I want to understand their world. I'm worried I'll lead them. Topics, walk me through the last time they assigned work to their team, what tools they use and why, the most frustrating part of their current process, and what they've tried before. I specifically want to hear about real recent instances, not hypotheticals. Avoid asking would you use a tool that does X.

user-interview-script.md

User interview script, June 5, 2026

Goal: Understand how they manage team tasks today, no pitching.

Warm-up

  1. Tell me about your role and your team.

Behavior (real, recent instances)

  1. Walk me through the last time you assigned work to your team. What happened?
  2. What tools did you use, and why those?
  3. What was the most frustrating part of that?

History

  1. What have you tried before to solve this? Why did you stop?

Avoid: hypotheticals and "would you use a tool that..." questions.

The workflow

1

Record a voice note

Hit the hotkey and talk, no formatting, no typing.

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Tag it with this context

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Pull it into Claude or ChatGPT

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Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.

The prompt behind this context

system prompt

I'm going to talk through what I want to learn from a user interview. Turn it into a non-leading interview script: a bold "User interview script, [today's date]" heading, an italic goal line, then questions grouped under bold sections (Warm-up, Behavior, History, etc.). Phrase every question to surface REAL past behavior and specific recent instances, never leading or hypothetical ("would you use..."). Base questions only on the topics I mention. End with an italic "Avoid:" line listing the traps I flagged. Don't invent topics. Output only the script.

Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.

Use this context

One tap adds it to your clipboard. Open Contextli and paste to add it.

Next, open Contextli, Contexts, Import, paste.

Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.

Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.

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