Ethnio for Designers
Inspire your design with a research system
Recruit, screen, schedule, and reward participants all in one secure platform built for fast-moving design teams.
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
Set up studies in minutes
Build screeners, link your designs, and start collecting feedback without waiting on research ops.
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 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 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
Ethnio has streamlined our research ops without sacrificing a fantastic experience for participants and researchers.
Ditch the duct tape. Use Ethnio.
All the stuff you’re patching together today? Ethnio already does it better.
Without Ethnio :(
- 😩 Chasing PMs for user lists
- 😩 Building forms manually
- 😩 Manually scheduling calls
- 😩 Tracking incentives in Sheets
- 😩 Asking legal for help
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
March 10th, 2026 | Best Practices
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.
February 12th, 2026 | New Feature
UX Research with Families
Do you need to gather parental consent for participants who are minors? Or do you want to track families for research over time and communicate with different family roles in all your scheduling, study invites, and incentives? Creating families in Ethnio has never been easier with our new Groups feature. If you need to talk to families over time, this might be for you 🧑🧒🧒
December 3rd, 2025 | Update
The Future of UX Research Automation: How Ops Teams Scale Insights Without Sacrificing Quality
Learn how automation and AI, paired with human judgment, help teams iterate faster. Here’s the latest on UX research tools and AI-driven methods orgs use to scale participant recruiting, streamline ResearchOps, and deliver high-quality insights.
The Research Ops platform trusted by designers
Spreadsheets are out. Research Operations Platforms are in. Sign up for a live demo to see how Ethnio is transforming the way teams streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and scale their impact.
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