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When you plan your interviews, you write an interview guide and you think a lot about how to ask questions and in what order. When you are actually conducting the interview, though, you will often find that how you intended to ask the questions and in what order changes completely depending on how the conversation evolves. Since most of an interview can consist of follow-up questions, obviously follow-up questions can mean many different things. In this template, we summarize qualitative researchers Steinar Kvale and Svend Brinkmann’s list of nine different types of questions, to serve as inspiration for how to follow up on questions.

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Table of contents for “User Research” master template bundle

Bundle of 17 User Research templates
  1. How to Conduct an Interview with Empathy
  2. Concrete Examples and Critical Incidents
  3. Customer Journey Map
  4. Good Questions for Stakeholder Interviews
  5. How to Structure a User Interview
  6. Interview Guide
  7. Practicalities and Difficulties of Conducting Observations
  8. Principles of Contextual Inquiry
  9. Research Plan Checklist
  10. Research Project Plan Example
  11. Semi-Structured Interviews – Different Types of Questions
  12. Steps in a Contextual Inquiry Session
  13. Steps in a Thematic Analysis
  14. Tips and Tricks for Running a Contextual Inquiry Session
  15. What to Look Out For When Conducting Observations
  16. How to Carry Out Follow-Up Interviews
  17. How to Ask Open-Ended Questions

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