5 Tips for creating effective user research questions (+ free question bank) | Maze

Your research is only as good as the questions you ask: asking the _right questions_ in the _right way_ is vital to gathering accurate and actionable user insights, and ensuring your product succeeds.

User research is only helpful if it’s generating unbiased, relevant insights—and to do this, you need your questions to be carefully-crafted and thoughtfully-worded. But this can be a daunting task.

In this video, we’ll walk through the types of user research questions to consider, how to decide on what you’re going to ask, and our tips for crafting and asking the ultimate questions in user research.

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⏱️ *Video timestamps:*
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - What are research questions?
01:22 - The value of a good question
01:35 - How to decide your research questions
02:28 - Types of question in user research
03:18 - How to write your own research questions
03:48 - Tip 1: Stay neutral
05:02 - Tip 2: Ask open-ended questions
05:58 - Tip 3: Take it one question at a time
06:46 - Tip 4: Help users find their own voice
07:49 - Tip 5: Ask questions you think you know the answer to
08:32 - Wrap-up
08:43 - Meet the Maze Question Bank

💙 *About Maze:*
Maze is a continuous product discovery platform that empowers product teams to collect and consume user insights, continuously. With solutions for participant recruitment, product research, and reporting, Maze helps teams build the habit of continuous product discovery in a platform that enables everyone to run *great* research.

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[GiadaGastaldello]

The video was super helpful, thanks for sharing!

[naomifrancis]

So helpful! Excited to use these practices myself