Day 1 – Start Recruiting Participants
The first day is reserved to get your interview sessions going. You need the right participants to get the best results.
Things to consider
Set a tight deadline
Pick a day for your interviews —even before you’ve finished the prototype or know exactly what you’re going to test! (One secret benefit of research sprints is that the deadline is very motivating to your team.)
It’s important that the core team (designers, engineers, and PMs) observe the interviews and talk about what they learned, so find a day when everyone’s available and block it off on their calendars.
Screen out people
To get the most bang for your buck, you’ll need to define and select the participants you want — and explicitly screen out the ones that won’t provide you helpful feedback.
To get the right people you could use following approaches:
- Test a getting-started experience with people from the target audience who haven’t used your product.
- Test task completion or usability with people who use (or would use) the feature you are designing.
Important Steps
For the selection of the right participans you should follow the following steps.
Step 1: Create a screener questionnaire
Define Criteria
- With your team, list the characteristics of the people you want to interview. Then figure out precise criteria you can use to identify those people.
- In addition to specifying the users you want to talk to, brainstorm characters you don’t want to see in your interviews.
Write screener questions & Publish them somewhere
- After you’ve written questions for all of your criteria, create your screener questionnaire.
Step 2: Get people to fill out your screener
With our screener survey ready we need a lot of people to fill it out in the hope to find the five suitable candidates. There are different possibilities. The easiest is to post a link to the survey on suitable channels to attract as much attention as possible.