Best Practices for Building and Maintaining Your Own Research-Participant Database

Summary: Developing your own research-participant database allows you to be efficient in recruiting study participants, enabling you to run more studies with faster turnaround.

Conducting user research is central to every UX practice. Whether you’re doing discovery research or conducting usability tests , recruiting the right participants for research studies is a critical part of the process.

There are several common options for recruiting research participants . In the table below, we outlined the important factors to consider when selecting a recruiting method for your studies.

Recruiting Method