---
id: "worksheets:exercise/responsible-interviewing"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Responsible Interviewing"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/responsible-interviewing"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Exercises designed to help you create and develop your public interest project, from Solving Public Problems by The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Responsible Interviewing

Exercise group: Defining Problems with Human-Centered Design · Optional exercise

## Questions

1. Write down a series of questions and activities for your interviewees to last about half an hour. But create extra questions to last an hour in case you end up having longer.
2. Some of these might involve direct questions but you can also ask people to undertake an activity, such as testing a website, and narrate their observations.
3. Use a combination of short and long answer formats. For example, consider yes/no questions followed by open-ended questions about why people have that view.
4. Evaluate each question, asking yourself, “What am I hoping to learn by asking this?” Make sure to test your questions with a few people to help you improve the questions.

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/50e57a87-df94-401e-8dff-e8e262b0e449

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Original page: https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/responsible-interviewing · Licence: none stated