This International Women’s Day 2025, intO is taking action from the inside out. We gave every female team member time off and a budget for a preventative health screening—a step that reflects a wider issue: across the world, Women’s health remains underfunded, under-researched, and undervalued. On IWD 2025, we ask: Which organisations are closing the gender health gap? And how can you support them today?
Before launching new products, features, or pricing models globally, leading brands test in smaller, lower-risk markets to refine their strategies. In this article, intO’s Commercial Director, Chloe Amos-Edkins, explores how proxy markets help businesses avoid cultural misalignment, usability gaps, and regulatory pitfalls, highlighting how businesses can choose the right proxy markets, run effective research, and avoid common pitfalls to ensure successful global rollouts.
DDX Dubai 2024 showcased the future of UX, AI, and product innovation, emphasising the need for human-centred, culturally attuned design. In a three-part LinkedIn series, Estair Robbins, Design Researcher at intO, reflects on key insights from the event—covering the balance between predictability and creativity, the ethical integration of AI, and the challenges of designing for global markets. Read the full series on LinkedIn and join the conversation on the future of research-led innovation.
AI is revolutionising research, but only the best UX researchers know how to harness its power without losing depth, ethics, or critical thinking. At intO, we don’t just keep up with these changes—we lead them. In this article, intO’s Founder & CEO, Joanna Brassett, shares what it takes to be an AI-enabled researcher today and why the right expertise makes all the difference. If your team is ready to embrace the future of research, you’ll want to read this.
As we wrap up our latest immersion project for YouTube, which spanned the US, Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia and Brazil, it’s the perfect time to explore why cultural immersions are a game-changer for foundational research and why they’ve become one of our most valuable services.
Studio intO’s award-winning Equitable AI Framework sets a new standard for designing fair, inclusive, and globally relevant AI systems. This framework tackles key challenges like linguistic inequity, cultural bias, and digital ethnocide, providing businesses with a clear path to develop AI that resonates across diverse cultures and user groups. Explore how the Equitable AI Framework can transform your AI strategy.
Join us for our upcoming event in London and discover actionable strategies and tools to transform your international user insight research.
In this one-hour intO DISCOVERY workshop, you’ll learn how to master prompts to support brainstorming and the development of future scenarios, and receive practical tips for evaluating ChatGPT output effectively and responsibly. The session will be led by intO’s Director of Research, Chloe Amos-Edkins, and Foresight Strategist, Thiara Cavadas.
Join intO CEO, Joanna Brassett, and Cultural & Foresight Strategist, Thiara Cavadas, at the AIBA Conference (October 25th, 2023, Katowice and Online). Sharing the stage with speakers from Meta, Microsoft, Miro and more, Joanna will introduce intO’s Equitable AI Framework, designed by intO to support ethical AI-empowered innovation journeys.
This day-long conference will explore how remote and in-the-moment techniques are enabling organisations to see through the eyes of their audience. As a speaker at the event, our founder, Joanna Brassett, can invite you to attend for £99 (a saving of £100 for non-members of MRS). Contact [email protected] to reserve your place.
Ever wonder what it might be like to be one of intO's client stakeholders?
Join host, intO's Global Strategy Director, Onika Simon, in this participatory experience that will illuminate what LOCALISE research is and how it works. A recent photograph of your fully-loaded fridge is the price of entry!
