Template
User interview template
A research interview is the one meeting where paraphrasing destroys the evidence. What somebody actually said, in the words they chose, is the finding. Keep the quotes.
The headings
What goes in it
1Problems described, quoted verbatim
2Workarounds they have built, and what those cost
3Features or changes they asked for, kept apart from problems they described
4Anything that contradicts an assumption we walked in with
Copy it as Markdown
# User interview **Date:** **Attendees:** ## Problems described, quoted verbatim - ## Workarounds they have built, and what those cost - ## Features or changes they asked for, kept apart from problems they described - ## Anything that contradicts an assumption we walked in with -
The same template, automatic
What Ledgeur goes looking for
Choose this template before you record and the on-device model reads the transcript against exactly this list.
- problems described in the interviewee's own words — quote them where the wording matters
- workarounds they have built, and what those cost them
- features or changes they asked for, kept separate from problems they described
- anything that contradicts an assumption the interviewer stated
Everything it finds still lands in the same four places: a summary, the decisions, the open questions and the action items. The template changes what it looks for, not the shape of the record, so notes from every kind of meeting stay searchable together.
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