Gathering initial operational details, business rules, or customer requirements from a user who has no prior history or saved data in a software tool.

Makes setting up a new user profile sound like a high-stakes police interrogation under cold fluorescent lights. It drapes a standard "Welcome / Account Setup" form questionnaire in dramatic investigative jargon.

• Police Interrogation Terms: Draping a standard online signup form in dramatic detective jargon.
• Over-Complicated Description: Calling a basic account setup questionnaire a "cold-start interview protocol."
• Feature Inflation: Pretending simple form fields represent deep investigative research.

Basic Instinct (1990s) famous interrogation room scene where Sharon Stone sits in the wooden chair under bright white overhead lights, calmly answering questions from a room full of intense detectives.

An initial setup questionnaire that asks new users for basic preferences when starting with a new software tool.

“Our cold-start interview process customizes platform settings during initial user registration.”

“When you log in for the first time, the software asks a few quick setup questions to customize your account settings.”