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Interviewing Users

How to Uncover Compelling Insights

Learn to ask the questions that surface what users really do.

by Steve Portigal

A practical guide to planning and conducting user interviews that yield genuine insight rather than confirmation of what you already believe. Portigal covers everything from recruiting and rapport to listening techniques and avoiding leading questions. The book treats interviewing as a learnable craft with concrete habits and tactics.

Founders constantly talk to customers but rarely interview them well, often hearing what they want to hear. This book teaches the discipline of extracting honest signal, which directly shapes what to build and for whom.

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