Mix together interaction designer, user advocate, and information architect until thoroughly combined. Add perfectionist and stir just until, well, perfect. Bake in 15 years as a user experience professional and five years as an html code monkey. Frost with visual designer and sprinkle on user experience evangelist until useful, usable, and delightful. Enjoy!
Experienced
15 years as a UX Professional 13 years in an Agile environment
A lifetime as a Geek
Skilled
Product Design, UX Design, UX Research, Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Communication
Creative
Introducing new methods, tools and ideas to solve old problems in new ways, and new problems any way possible.
Curious
Perpetual student of life, the universe, and everything. And the best way to learn is to teach.
"Alison is brilliantly creative with contagious energy and class."
Casey Watson, Senior Software Engineer at ReadyTalk
"In an environment where UX is "the hot new job to get into", Alison possesses a true passion for and considerable depth of experience in user-centered design. She is the real deal. "
Andrea Hill, Manager of Innovation Strategy at ReadyTalk
"Alison always put a lot of thought into her work and when asked about specific design elements she was able to easily relate something that she learned from user testing."
Brad Beeler, Senior Software Engineer at ReadyTalk
"What I appreciated most while working with Alison was her eagerness to share her insights and involve engineers like myself in the actual design process."
Nathan Thompson, Senior SDET at ReadyTalk
"Alison's designs were elegant and focused on making the UX useable, not just pretty."
Heather Daymon, Senior Technical Manager at MapQuest
"Alison is one of the best UI/UX people that I had the pleasure to work with."
Brad Beeler, Senior Software Engineer at ReadyTalk
"Alison worked tirelessly to raise awareness of and support for the importance of UX across our organization by introducing different methods for gaining deeper customer empathy."
Andrea Hill, Manager of Innovation Strategy at ReadyTalk
"I was impressed by Alison's incredible depth of knowledge in the realm of User Experience Design."
Nathan Thompson, Senior SDET at ReadyTalk
"Alison was a significant contributor to weaving UX into the engineering culture and scaling a team of UX engineers across many products."
Heather Daymon, Director of Software Engineering at Return Path
"I found in Alison an ally in advocating for deeper customer research to drive our product initiatives."
Andrea Hill, Manager of Innovation Strategy at ReadyTalk
"Alison would elicit feedback from the team as a whole and incorporate everything she received into beautiful and coherent designs."
Nathan Thompson, Senior SDET at ReadyTalk
"My favorite qualities of Alison's: straightforward communicator, brilliant at the entire span of UX work (design principles, customer interviews, technical mockups), and a strong technical aptitude for working with engineers."
Heather Daymon, Director of Software Engineering at Return Path