Ethnio's Donate Portion to Charity Feature Gets a Powerful AI Upgrade

With Ethnio, participants can donate a portion of their incentives to charity. Find out how our latest AI can simplify management and provide participants with culturally relevant experiences. 🕊
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Mastering Research Leadership from Meta and TripAdvisor with Loi Sessions Goulet, PhD

Learn about research leadership from Loi’s time at Meta, Tripadvisor, and now as principal at Sessions Research. Let’s get into it.

Exploring smart and ethical AI usage in UX Research Tools in 2024

In the midst of the AI craze, we investigated UX research tools leveraging AI and its future impact on UXR. Unveiled intriguing use cases alongside some questionable AI products.

UXR and Research Ops Events in LA in 2024

We're excited for more UX Research events and Re Ops around LA in 2024. Check back here for more updates soon.

Looking for Ruby Developers

If you've worked for 3+ years with Rails, JS, and React and are interested in serious architecture challenges in a fast-moving environment that helps UX researchers around the world, join the Ethnio team!

Carol Rossi’s Guide to Prioritizing Research for Strategic Impact

Based on her work with companies like Hulu, Citibank, and Belkin, we asked Carol to share her thoughts on prioritizing research for strategic impact.

Anna Loparev and Brigette Metzler Unpack The Signs You Need Research Ops

Join UX experts Anna Loparev (Sr. UX Researcher, New Relic) and Brigette Metzler (Re+Ops co-chair) discussing signs of organizational readiness for a dedicated research ops team.

Streamlining Usability Testing: A Comprehensive Guide to UXPin and Ethnio

UXPin's Merge and Ethnio's Research Ops platform streamline usability testing. Learn to recruit, screen, schedule, conduct tests, and pay globally—using two tools.

UX Research Democratization in 2023

Demand has never been higher internally at most product companies for UX research. This means non-researchers inevitably conduct research. How you feel about that sentence brings us to the great democratization debate.

Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in UX Research Studies: Leveraging Quotas Effectively

UX researchers and Research ops lead inclusive recruiting, leveraging tools for DEI quotas. Supporting designers, PMs, and product teams in advocating diversity across all research.

4 Ways to Recruit UX Research Participants in 2023

Delving into 4 UX research methods, prioritizing users for insights. A closer look at intercepts underscores the significance of recruiting engaged participants for product-focused understanding.

Best Panel Management Software in 2023 (Optimize Your Research Operations)

Discover the top panel management software solutions in 2023, as we compare features, pricing, and user experiences to help you streamline your research process and optimize participant engagement.

Qualtrics Alternatives for UX Research Ops Teams in 2023

Discover the top Qualtrics alternatives in 2023, offering powerful features and intuitive interfaces to meet your survey and UX research needs. Compare and choose the perfect solution for your business.

Mastering User Research Recruiting in 2023

Explore 2023 UX research recruiting: panels, agencies, and methods. Learn common practices, quota importance, and effective screener use for finding ideal candidates.

Best UX research tools for participant recruiting in 2023

Curated the best UX research tools for participant recruiting. Based on our extensive use, external reports, Slack feedback, demos, and reviews, these top four excel. Let's explore why.

Orly Sibony talks about the impact of a small UX research team

Learn how to effectively intercept users for research without disrupting their workflow using Ethnio's targeting features and incentives in this comprehensive guide.

10 ways to reduce B2B participant no-shows in UX Research

Struggling with no-shows in B2B UX interviews? Here's how to boost participant attendance, tips on calendar invites to incentives.

Maximizing Intercept Recruiting: Tips for Effective Intercept Targeting Without Workflow Interruptions

Learn how to effectively intercept users for research without disrupting their workflow using Ethnio's targeting features and incentives in this comprehensive guide.

🎨 Product Designer

We're excited to have a product design position open for an experienced designer looking to work for a growing research SaaS specialized in UX Research interfaces. Do you have a knack for designing user-friendly interfaces that help people work more efficiently? Get in touch!

Designing the perfect screener

Discussion on screener design: questions per page, pages per screener, P.I.I. collection timing, and other related issues. Goals: optimal participants, high conversion rates, and excellent UX.

🌎 International Incentives

We're requiring Pro plans for international incentives as of November 1st, 2022. Turns out they require a ton of support, and we're launching a ton of improvements. 

Research Ops 101: Using the Research Ops Framework to Build a Thriving Research Practice

Learn how to effectively intercept users for research without disrupting their workflow using Ethnio's targeting features and incentives in this comprehensive guide.

Donate a portion of rewards to charity 🕊

Make the world a little better by allowing research recipients to share a percentage of their reward with 40+ global charities. Crazy stat: since launch, we have seen a 325% increase in donations to charity 🕊

Five sweet new features 🍬

Check out the major updates below to see what's already live in Ethnio for 2021. Thank you to all our customers and research friends who gave us feedback on these features. Details below!

The Participant Incentive Experience (PIE)

After paying 180,000+ research participants all over the world on behalf of thousands of researchers and operations teams, thought we’d share some lessons learned to help you treat your participants right.

Security Improvements for 2020

Ensuring your data's security, Ethnio is pursuing 2020 SOC 2 certification, enhancing vulnerability management, updating security policies, and conducting advanced penetration tests.

How a Large Finance Company uses Pool

Encountered internal compliance hurdles impeding user research. Reviewing yearly plan, managing a new beta group became a key goal, prompting my interest in assessing our tools.

Screener Design Best Practices

Let’s talk about how many questions per page, how many pages in a screener, when to collect P.I.I,, and other issues relating to screener design. We’ll assume your goals are roughly to get the best participants, highest conversion rate, and give your respondents the best UX.

How the FEC tackled intercepts without implementing JavaScript

At larger organizations and government agencies, strict controls dictate intercepts. Ethnio can be implemented ingeniously without JavaScript. The FEC devised an approach for this purpose.

Targeting is Here

Empower yourself to decide who has visibility into your recruiting screener. Customize the audience to ensure it reaches only those you choose.

Announcing The Independence of Ethnio

We’re thrilled to announce that ethnio has grown up and is ready to become a separate entity. As of today, we wave goodbye to Bolt | Peters and say hello to our very own company named, shockingly, ethnio.

Automatic Scheduling

 Ethnio Scheduling eases the pain in the ass of finding interview times. Participants choose, we handle time zones, and you can export to iCal, Outlook, or gCal for convenience.

5 Key Ingredients for UX Research Recruiting

Selecting participants for UX research is a crucial rehearsal. Treat screening as seriously as the research itself, using 5 key ingredients for success.

All New Scheduling

Everything is new. We've re-designed scheduling from the ground up, including more reliable communication, better time zone support, export to Outlook and iCal, backups/alternates, and a new fast mode where ethnio chooses participants for you and invites them to participate automatically. If you use the scheduling feature in ethnio, or have thought about using it, here's the list of everything we've just changed to make it way easier to use and more reliable.

How Obama for America used Ethnio for the Presidential Campaign

We are proud to be able to say our little ethnio was of use to those involved in the Obama 2012 Campaign!

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