Developing Interview Questions with Hypandra

When I started thinking about the next blog post we wanted to create, one topic was an easy choice: our logo.

Anthony Tran did a fantastic job translating Hypandra’s vision into something unique and fitting—embracing our values while adding his own creativity and precision. I also wanted to highlight some of the Hypandra Explore feature, which sparked an idea: What if I used Hypandra itself to generate the interview questions for my conversation with Anthony?

See: Designing Curiosity: A Conversation with Hypandra’s Logo Designer, Anthony Tran

Using Hypandra to Build the Interview

Inside Explore, I started with a simple prompt describing what I was trying to do:

Anthony designed the logo for my website, and now I’m interviewing him for a blog post about it. What questions should I ask him?

From there, I moved everything to a new project on Hypandra Projects.

This is where I read through Hypandra's reflections and workshopping which questions to include. Some were perfect, others a little off-topic, but even the tangents helped refine the focus.

One of the reflections Hypandra offered stood out:

What problem was he trying to solve that you hadn't even recognized?

It also reminded me that the best interviews often follow natural curiosity rather than a strict script. That reflection alone shifted how I approached the entire conversation.

Using Projects to Refine and Collaborate

As Hypandra continues to evolve, so does the usability of its features. Currently, within a project, you can:

• Add new questions or reflections as you go
• Share your project so others can view or collaborate
• Run any question immediately back through other Hypandra tools for deeper exploration

All Hypandra projects can be made public and shareable. Our long-term goal is to help multiple users or teams to interact with curiosity projects together—adding, editing, commenting, and expanding on each other’s ideas. We envision these projects as spaces to gather, explore, and connect the questions that drive your curiosity and develop better search habits.

You can see and interact with this specific project here: Interview with Anthony

Reflecting on the Process

It’s always fun, and a little humbling, to use something you’ve spent so long thinking about and suggesting improvements on. This was the first time I used Hypandra outside of internal testing or my own personal curiosity, and it was genuinely exciting. I found the reflection useful in getting in the correct mindset and the questions generated did prompt further curiosity in myself regarding how interviewing works and what leads to certain lines of questioning.

Even after going through the tools and features countless times during development, testing, and demo sessions, approaching them from this new angle gave me fresh perspective—and revealed many improvements we are still in the process of making which just furthers the excitement.