# Guide 2: How to do user interviews

* [ ] Recruit interview participants
* [ ] Run user interviews
* [ ] Document interview notes

This guide is part of The Catalyst PUNS Guide. It follows on from Guide 1: How to plan your project. 

Use it and Guides 3 and 4 for each user group you plan to create personas and user need statements for.

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### What you need to have already done

For Guide 2 to be useful you need to have:

* Planned your project
* Decided which user group you will interview first
* Written research questions for your first user group

You can use Guide 1: How to plan your project to do this.
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### What you will have by the end

By the time you are done here you will have:

* A set of post-it notes capturing the most important things you heard in each interview, organised on a wall or whiteboard. These could be real or virtual.
* Learnt how to recruit participants, run user interviews and document your notes as post-its on a whiteboard
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### 🙋🏽What to use

* **User research worksheet in 2.1 👉**
* **User research consent form in 2.1 👉**
* **Interview questions and notes template in 2.2** 👉
* Advice and guidance from the steps below and the links you find👉
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#### 🔗🔗 [User interviews: why you must do them](https://www.thecatalyst.org.uk/blog/why-interviews)

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