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To clarify user intent during product discovery interviews, use a one-question-at-a-time probing approach. This method tests initial hypotheses and surfaces missing details with minimal cognitive load until approximately 95% confidence about the underlying goal is achieved.

Hypothesis-driven discovery extracts actual user needs by asking targeted, one-question-at-a-time prompts. This incremental interview process surfaces hidden constraints and the true underlying intent behind an initial request.

Conduct a question-driven discovery workflow by starting with a hypothesis about the user's goal, then asking sequential clarifying questions. Once confidence is high, generate a concise restate of the intended outcome and require an explicit confirmation before proceeding.

Yes, intent clarification is designed for underspecified product management requests. By probing one question at a time, it safely guides incremental decision making and reveals who, why, and constraint details that are initially missing.

The restate and confirm mechanism presents a concise restatement of the intended outcome once probing concludes. It requires an explicit yes from the user before moving to downstream steps, ensuring accurate requirements discovery.

Avoid a one-question-at-a-time interview when you already possess over 95% confidence regarding the user's intent, or when downstream definition and specification skills require immediate integration without incremental discovery.