UX Research Assistant practice interview
Participant recruitment, interview support, usability sessions and evidence-based research summaries. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A UX research assistant helps a research or product team recruit participants, prepare sessions, capture observations and organise evidence. The interview looks for curiosity, neutral questioning, careful handling of participant information and the ability to turn messy notes into useful findings.
How to prepare
- Review the differences between interviews, surveys, contextual inquiry and usability testing.
- Practise writing open, neutral questions that do not reveal the answer you expect.
- Prepare an example of how you grouped observations into themes without overstating the evidence.
- Think through participant consent, confidentiality and secure research note handling.
- Rehearse a short explanation of one research finding and the product decision it could inform.
Common mistakes
- Treating personal opinions as user evidence.
- Asking leading questions that push participants towards a preferred answer.
- Claiming that a small study proves what every user will do.
- Sharing participant details when an anonymous example would be enough.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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