Top Websites for Fast User Recruiting
Sometimes you need to find specific users fast. Theresa Charleston of National Geographic Learning describes websites that have deep user panels and can get results fast.
“They will recruit targeted people and they have a huge database of users. I’m actually a user tester and a testee, so I get familiar with the [platforms]”
Transcript
Jim Morris:
Hi there, fellow product leaders. Sometimes you need to find and recruit specific users but don't have a lot of time. Theresa Charleston describes websites that have deep user panels and can get results fast. Enjoy.
Theresa Charleston:
Some of the tools that we use for, for example, recruiting users or showing prototypes and doing user testing, there are a couple of big ones of course that probably everybody knows about and if you don't check it out, but UserTesting.com and UserZoom which are very popular remote testing platforms that allow you to not only recruit users, you can recruit your own, they will recruit for you. In fact, their recruitment team is probably one of their biggest draws because they will recruit targeted people and they have a huge database of users. I'm actually a user tester and a testee, so I get familiar with the [platforms], right?
Jim Morris:
Yeah, I'm familiar with user testing. I haven't, I think I might've seen UserZoom but I haven't used them.
Theresa Charleston:
Yeah, it's very much like UserTesting and you'll also get for some of these, you can also do mobile and desktop. You can do picture in picture. Now if UserTesting can be a little bit pricier so if your department or you don't have a high, a big budget, you can try UsabilityHub, is another one. It's a lot less expensive. That one's great because they can recruit for you, but they can actually, you can actually import your designs and use just a link that they generate with your own users that you recruit.
Jim Morris:
Thanks for watching. You can find more product discovery resources at productdiscoverygroup.com.
Jim Morris, Product Discovery Group
Jim coaches Product teams to collaborate with each other and seek customer input early and often during the design and ideation phase.
