In this exercise, an interview team tries to find one of the values of an interview subject, then verify it carefully.

Preparation

<aside> ☝ Try this first with interview subjects who are very patient. In your first VETs, it might take an hour of interviewing to get one good value from your subject. Once you've practiced, you can get it down to 10 minutes—more suitable for busy people.

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Before your first VET:

• Look at the worksheet and make sure you understand it
• Look at the different questions we suggest you ask, to gather info for the different columns
• Finally, make sure you understand the value check procedure.

Contents

Getting Started

1. Introduce the process. Tell your subject what's about to happen. Something like this:

   • Intro blurb

2. Choose an aspect of life. You may want to focus on meaningful experiences related to your design project.

   • Otherwise, if you're open to any part of life, ask something like this:

3. Ask about a meaningful time. The easiest way to start is to ask your subject about a meaningful time in their life. It's easiest with a meaningful moment—something that happened over 5 minutes or an hour, rather than over months or years.

   Tell me about a meaningful moment in your life with (insert aspect here) - something that happened over 5 minutes or an hour, rather than over months or years.

   (For more advanced VETing, there are other ways to start the interview—from experiences of frustration, meaninglessness, etc.)

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The Interview