For in-person research, we've gone with Davis Recruitment, and they did a great job.
Outside of agency recruiting, you should also look into recruiting using a form on your website, if you've never tried it before. You can use a tool like Ethnio (ethnio.com), which is specially built for user research recruiting, to place a short screener survey on your website. As soon as your web visitors' responses come in, you can contact them to participate in your research study. You can also use automatic form builders like Google Docs' forms feature (docs.google.com) and Wufoo (wufoo.com). One advantage of recruiting this way is that you can talk to people who actually came to your website because they're interested in your product or service%u2014that's not always the case with recruiting agencies. If you're conducting a remote user study, you can also contact recruits to begin the study at the very moment that they submit the recruiting form, which means you can actually watch them using your website or product as they normally would. Full disclosure, I work for the makers of Ethnio, Bolt | Peters. We also specialize in live online recruiting and remote user research methods; feel free to email us at info [at] boltpeters [dot] com if you have any questions about live recruiting. Hope this helps! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47283 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
