Ethnio for Product Designers

Connecting design to real users

Design shouldn’t happen in a vacuum, yet recruiting the right participants is often the biggest bottleneck in the creative process. Ethnio empowers product designers to bypass the logistics of research by automating recruitment, scheduling, and incentives.

Study plan for design test Session: Unmoderated Link: app.optimalworkship Incentive: $40 Tool: Study details 60 participants Start date set Consent agreements Screeners qualified $2.4k incentive budget Kick off study

Design research. Without blockers.

Everything designers need in one place (for research)

Test your prototypes with the right users

Whether you’re using Figma, Maze, or something else, Ethnio helps you recruit real users and book test sessions fast.

  • Find the right participants based on real filters
  • Let users pick time slots that fit their schedule
  • Run live or async sessions
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Set up studies in minutes

Build screeners, link your designs, and start collecting feedback without waiting on research ops.

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Make beautiful custom intercepts

Customize every touchpoint like screeners, calendars, and emails, with your brand, tone, and domain.

Kill the chaos. Keep the craft.

Should designers be in charge of compliance? No. Let Ethnio handle that

Pay participants with Ethnio
Pay participants without stress
  • Send international payments in seconds
  • Automatic receipts and logs for your team
  • Works for any type of session, live or async
Automated legal
Automated legal and compliance
  • Built-in consent, NDAs, and data use agreements
  • Customize flows based on region or user segment
  • Export proof for compliance in a click
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“Customer obsession is key at Intuit, and Ethnio is a pivotal tool for intercept-based participant recruiting, allowing us to scale our customer insights”

Kristy Avgerinos
Design Research Manager, Intuit

Ditch the duct tape. Use Ethnio.

All the stuff you’re patching together today? Ethnio already does it better.

Research without Ethnio

Without Ethnio :(

  • 😩 Chasing PMs for user lists
  • 😩 Building forms manually
  • 😩 Manually scheduling calls
  • 😩 Tracking incentives in Sheets
  • 😩 Asking legal for help
Research with Ethnio

With Ethnio

  • 🔥 Target users from your product
  • 🔥 Templates and logic-based screeners
  • 🔥 Built-in calendar + rules
  • 🔥 Auto-send + reporting
  • 🔥 Pre-approved, built-in consent

Resources to fuel your design process

Ethnio has a new look 💅

Ethnio has a new look 💅

For years, our logo has been a simple target that symbolized finding the perfect participants for research. As the company and product have grown, we’re excited to introduce a new logo and identity that reflect where Ethnio is going.
August 11th, 2026 | Announcement
🎨 Product Designer

🎨 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 Research CRM interfaces. Do you have a knack for designing user-friendly interfaces that help people work more efficiently? Get in touch!
April 5th, 2026 | Hiring
The hidden complexity of global research incentives

The hidden complexity of global research incentives

Let’s take a look at how we’ve built a fully integrated global incentive orchestration system tied to research workflows, leveraging three kinds of AI and human translators. Most tools solve payouts. Ethnio solves research incentives globally from recruitment to localized payments.
March 11th, 2026 | Best Practices
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See how Ethnio helps UX teams find, screen, schedule, and pay participants — all in one place, without the spreadsheet juggling.

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  • How to recruit screened participants in under 10 minutes
  • Automated scheduling, consent, and incentive payouts
  • Managing a participant pool your whole team can use
  • How Ethnio fits your existing research workflow
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