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12 June 2021 (pre-meeting notes)

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• Goal is to get these done over this month, try to end by July 10 at the latest

I have a list of 56.5 people to interview – I’ll reach out to them over the next two weeks to arrange 0.5-1 hour interviews depending on how the interview guides are going, and how prepared we are.

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• Hardware – James Lin

• Firmware – Ryan Dancy, Mitchell Osler

• Strategy – Emma Wai

MSXII (past)

• Aaron Tan

• Avery Chiu (our main point of contact for questions)

• Taiping (may not be reachable…hence 0.5)

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• One person acts as the “main interviewer” – they will be asking most of the questions and directing the interview

• The rest of the people listen in on the interview (cameras off) and act as notetakers

  • They are also expected to step in with any questions that they have, and help prompt the interviewer if they’re having trouble

  • It’s good practice to record interviews and go over recordings after the fact. However, it’s very time-consuming and we have multiple people able to take notes – so I don’t want to do it.

    • I will save transcripts/recordings for reference, but we don’t want to fully go over all of them

    • Take good, detailed notes during the interview

    • Don’t do schoolwork/other stuff during the interviews lmao

• It would be Very Cool if y’all were able to act as the “main interviewer” at least once

  • really Really good experience and helps differentiate you as a UX applicant, since most people never get the chance to do research with actual users

  • HOWEVER, the interview guide must be well prepared/fully fleshed out (or I won’t let you do it :P)

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• Notice that the sample has 5 main research questions/themes. These are your guiding questions that you are seeking to answer. They are BIG and ambiguous.

• This weekend (June 12/13), try to come up with 5 big questions EACH that you want answered

  • 5*4 = 20 questions total

  • 10 for MSXIV dash (Rishii and Joy), 10 for MSXII dash (Cheryl and Catherine)

  • As a team, we will discuss what questions we want to prioritize (ie if all of us came up with the same question, we likely want to include that question)

• Next week, flesh out the sub-questions for the big questions/themes we agree on

  • I will try to provide guidance on this if needed, or prompts to help you brainstorm

  • I will also be re-splitting up the interview guides, because I feel that we may need different ones for each subteam using telemetry – let’s discuss Monday

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