There are several ways we find people to help with usability tests or user interviews. We use social media networks, we respond to people who tweet about a MailChimp feature we’re currently studying, and we send campaigns to a mailing list of people who signed up to help with testing. (You can join that list, BTW: http://eepurl.com/Dw7D.)

When we have open criteria for user interviews, we get great results through those methods. But when we need to recruit for a very particular feature or criteria, it becomes difficult and time consuming. Getting specific usually increases the recruiting time by a couple days, which is a total drag when we’d rather actually be talking with our users.

Enter Ethnio, a nifty tool that allows you to create a popup screener, make a short survey for the screener, place the popup on your website or send out a direct link on social media, and easily recruit participants for your user interviews or usability tests.
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Recently I shared with you guys how we’re getting scrappy with Remote Usability Testing on Mobile Devices. We’ve also been hanging out in coffee shops with our users and testing our mobile prowess in person.

We needed a way to record these sessions, and I got inspired by these guys. But I wanted to come up with a way to record in person mobile tests in a mac environment.

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