Positly is a unique platform that blends the most significant features and qualities of other research sites into one cohesive, seamless experience. As we embark together into the 2019 stage of research, we want to revisit our mission and share with you the positive steps we are taking to create the best research platform available to academic researchers, marketers, business owners, and anybody seeking high-quality research results.
We’re on a mission to dramatically accelerate primary human subject research by creating and enhancing our software technology that improves the research process. Our goal is to simplify the way you conduct studies and making it easier, faster, cheaper, and more robust, enabling you to make positive changes in your area of expertise.
We evaluate each update we make to ensure that it meets one of two principles. The update or new feature must either create a better user experience or produce better research results. If the proposed enhancement does not do either of those two things, it is not explored further. The idea is that each update must provide value to you, the end user, and we are proud to introduce these newest updates to the Positly platform.
Better experience
Design overhaul
We’ve completely revamped our website and our platform to better serve your needs. We took user feedback and paired it with extensive testing to create a seamless platform that is easy to understand yet robust enough to handle your most stringent research demands.
Language and tooltips
Throughout the research platform, you’ll find subtle language updates to reduce confusion and new and improved tooltips when you need a little extra help along the way. The tooltips appear throughout the platform in areas where you may need some additional guidance or further explanations regarding the functionality.
Increased context awareness
We believe that you should be able to get up and running quickly without needing to search for instructions. For examples, when you add your Activity link we will automatically provide you with the appropriate integration instructions.
Dashboard illustrations
New illustrations are meant to guide you through the research process. We want you to understand our platform with perfect clarity, which is why these illustrations are present as you pass through the interface to set up your study.
FAQs to help you get started
We took the time to address common questions and concerns by introducing frequently asked questions on blank pages that users can reference to get started with Positly.
We have also done a big overhaul and rewrite of our Knowledge Base and will be continuing to develop this more comprehensively.
Better Research
Updates to Run creation workflow
We have made major updates to Run creation including, introducing Run names (to make it easier to organise your activities and participants with internal names you can easily decipher and interpret), adding a wizard-style creation, and a complete overhaul of the Participant targeting interface.
Unified targeting interface
Participants can now be targeted for Demographics, Custom attributes, Quality, and Previous participation using a single unified interface. This also makes it easier to add new targeting options in the future. Keep an eye out for more options here!
Improvements to Custom attributes
You can now create Custom attributes on the fly while creating your Run. This significantly improves multi-activity studies where you need people to have a particular Custom attribute set in the first Run and want to immediately target in the second Run.
Improvements to Rejection handling
When a Participant is Rejected, you can choose from a variety of options what happens next with that Participant. This functionality is updated to quickly replace, reject without replacing, or un-reject and pay.
Closing the loop with feedback, stats, and nudges
We love behavioural science so much that we’ve used it in designing many behavioural nudges to help better time estimation, study quality, use of pilots and many other researcher behaviours that are key to good quality research.
We’ve made more actionable stats available to researchers that allows for iterative improvements in study design, better troubleshooting, enhanced analysis, and in-depth reporting.
Our redesigned Feedback options help participants to more easily leave detailed descriptions for the researcher that can improve future studies, or finish up quickly if everything went smoothly.
Better future
We are continually striving to create the best research platform for you, and these updates are just the beginning.
We will be taking feedback straight from our users to consistently enhance our software so that it works for the research you need. It is our goal to make the world a better place through high-quality research.
To that end, we’d love to hear from you about what’s most important to you to prioritise.
Leave a comment below or get in touch to let us know what would most improve your life as a researcher. We’re always keen to speak with researchers, so don’t be a stranger!
Always remember, our vow to you is to continue evolving with new information and new technology to serve your research needs better.
