Analysts who practice UX research as a source of requirements face challenges in preparing and conducting such meetings. While popular courses and articles offer general recommendations, they often overlook the unspoken “rules of the game” — and without those, even well-planned efforts may fall flat.

The experience of conducting 250 research sessions has helped identify several tools that will help collect feedback from product users in a few days.

• How to recruit users for research without spending weeks on coordination?
• What is the best way to communicate with respondents to keep them engaged and achieve research goals?
• How to know when it’s time to stop — before you waste time on meetings that bring no new insights and valuable conclusions?

This talk will offer hands-on tips for recruiting respondents and conducting interviews that you can apply in your very next round of user research.