Speedy recruiting for customer research

Hosted by Elizabeth Creighton, PhD

Thu, Jan 15, 2026

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User Interview Skills for Designers & PMs
Elizabeth Creighton, PhD
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What you'll learn

Strategies for finding your ideal participants

Quickly narrow in on your audience & write a lightweight screener to ensure they're qualified participants -- not bots.

The best ways to get potential participants to say "yes"

Tried-and-true tricks for getting folks to sign up & commit to showing up.

Simple steps to create an automated participant workflow

A low-effort way to manage participant signups, scheduling, consent forms, and reminders.

Why this topic matters

The #1 pain point I hear from founders, designers, UXRs & PMs who want to talk to customers is that they waste a lot of time trying to get them to sign up & show up for research. A poorly-conducted recruit is a time-suck that stops a project in its tracks - but it doesn't have to be this way! In this talk, I'll share tips from my 16 years of iteration to make my recruiting faster & more efficient.

You'll learn from

Elizabeth Creighton, PhD

Founder of Brazen UX | ex-Shopify | 1,000+ interviews conducted

With 16 years of experience conducting impactful research, Elizabeth has shaped the design of hundreds of websites, apps, services, and physical products for companies such as Shopify, Mozilla, Instacart, MTV, and Meta. Her experience is complemented by a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, which gives her a deep understanding of how users think, behave, learn, and remember. When she isn't running user interviews, Elizabeth teaches training workshops on user interview skills for conferences, clients, and the Maven and O'Reilly Media platforms.

clients include

Shopify.com
Meta
Mozilla
Instacart
MTV

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