David Willis
Head Of Design at Trainline
Working with Alison has been an absolute pleasure.
From the moment she started it was obvious she was going to add value to our team - she supported in forming a successful new squad alongside Product and Engineering counterparts, championed design thinking, had a data informed opinion and put in the effort to get to know everyone and embed herself into the team culture even during remote working times.
Alison brings a wealth of knowledge, an infectious ‘get things done’ attitude and positive vibes, meaning even tackling problems with complex requirements happen in a true customer first way.
Whilst at Trainline she’s run design workshops, helped manage opportunity backlogs, completed rounds of customer testing and shipped so many cool improvements to the product.
We would gladly have her back as part of the team again in the future and she’ll be an asset to any team she joins.
Chris Williams
Principal Product Owner at CleverMover
Alison is the sort of designer that product managers dream of working with as she takes complex requirements and customer journeys and distils them down into simple and effective solutions with the focus completely on the customer and their needs.
Our mantra was 'surprise and delight the customer', which isn't easy when looking at mortgages, and regulated fact find processes in particular, but Alison rose to the challenge spectacularly, and made it look easy.
Not only would she produce a complex customer journey on demand but her personal workflow was such that she would usually have several different options available on demand allowing for instant turnaround depending on feedback from customers and decision makers.
I'd love to work with Alison again.
Katie Stotter
Strategy Director at &Us
Alison is very talented and thorough. I had the pleasure of working with her on a project to completely reimagine a digital learning platform.
The work was fast-paced, with a few levels of complexity from a UX perspective. Alison provided a knowledgeable point of view, and smart solutions, always keeping user needs front of mind, not just for our team, but for the client team too.
As lead designer, she handled the intricacies of the project easily, making my job much easier! She did all this while juggling additional, fast-turnaround client requests, and was a pleasure to work with throughout.
Alison would be a fantastic addition to any design project and I hope we’ll work together again in the future.
Aude Firmin
Product Lead at Trainline
I worked with Alison on highly complex and technical projects for Trainline and she is one of the most creative, hard-working and driven designers I know.
She brilliantly integrates data in all of her decisions and takes feedback as an opportunity to grow and improve. Alison is highly collaborative with the dev teams, other designers and key stakeholders.
She has a heart of gold and used her talents to inspire other designers and product managers at Trainline in order to strengthen the whole team's design skills.
I can say that any company would be lucky to have her working on their project.