46. The Three Interviewing Modes

Step 4. Interviewing Players

Although you now have a prioritised list of questions, you need to have an interview plan - a framework for interviewing.

To help you form an interview plan, let's consider these three 'modes' for interviewing:

  1. Goals, Roles, and Rules - establishing the game's fundamentals

  2. Bridging - moving between questions

  3. Investigating - deep dive into a specific issue

It's likely that you will spend the majority of your interview time in one of these three modes.

Key Takeaway

Having a framework for interviewing is useful as you’ll have a clear starting point and also a method of getting to the insights you need.

Next: 47. Mode 1 - Goals, Roles, and Rules