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.

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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

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.

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

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Resources to fuel your design process

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.

December 1st, 2025 | Update

Ethnio's Year in Review

Wrapping up the year with key milestones, and enabling better Research Ops for the future. Let’s celebrate the awesome work of our customers and lay the groundwork for next year.

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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