# Alison Higuera

> UX/UI Design • Product Management

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alisonhiguera

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ percipient.ai
Jan 2022 – Present

### Lead Designer, Senior Staff @ percipient.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Lead Designer @ percipient.ai
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Design leader in a cross-functional team focused on creating a human + machine intelligence analysis platform to elevate human understanding & analytic tradecraft.

UX/UI Design • Product Management • Marketing & Branding

### UX/UI Designer @ percipient.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California
Design leader in a cross-functional team focused on creating a human + machine intelligence analysis platform to elevate human understanding & analytic tradecraft.

UX/UI Design • Product Management

### Freelance Artist and Designer @ self
Jan 2010 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Freelance Artist
• Teach painting and printmaking workshops for adults and children
• Design and create mixed media paintings and installations
• Design and create felt toys for children

• Contract UX Designer: Targeted Marketing & Enterprise SaaS / IoT Dashboard design projects
• Contract Marketing Web & Print Designer: Digital Case Study, Conference presence & marketing collateral design projects

### UX Designer @ Impekable
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leadership Achievements:
• Lead Designer & Project Manager: Partner with startup leadership to create UX/UI designs to take a leading edge intelligence analysis platform from prototype through early stage product including QA UX/UI dev implementation and designing new workflows and interfaces to test for desirability.
• Lead UX/UI Designer: Modernize and more effectively visualize high volume, real-time call center data for the nation's third largest debt consolidator including designs for admin / agent dashboard, and CTI integration.
• Lead UX/UI Designer: Partner with Product Marketing and SMB Teams to lead web marketing UX and visual design to modernize the landing page and reorganize information architecture on sub-brand microsites for Netgear.

Industries of Focus:
• Consumer & Enterprise Video Surveillance Security, Video Analysis (Web)
• Enterprise Call Center Interactions & Data Visualization (Web)
• Enterprise Targeted Marketing Data Visualization (Web)
• Enterprise SaaS & IoT Network Security Data Visualization (Web)
• Enterprise NFC Inventory Process Interaction Design (Mobile)
• Consumer NFC & Augmented Reality Interaction Design (Mobile)
• Consumer Voice Skills Interaction Design (Mobile)

Created designs for a mix of enterprise, consumer & innovations arms including: percipient.ai, Netgear, Liberty Mutual, Adobe, National Debt Relief, thinfilm. 

Much of my UX/UI portfolio is protected under NDA and not available on the internet.

### Designer @ Impekable
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
Key Accomplishments:
• Built Impekable's Behance portfolio site as the primary content generator, designer, and copywriter. Impekable's Behance portfolio site features some key public projects completed by Impekable

### MS and HS Fine Arts Instructor, Art Dept Content Specialist @ YES Prep Public Schools
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Houston, TX
Leadership Achievements:
• Pro-actively led district-wide curriculum development & exhibition collaboration prior to the existence of Art Dept Content Specialist position.
• Mentored first-year art teachers in the YES Prep Public Schools District.
• Coordinated and co-curated district-wide student exhibitions off-campus, including an exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
• Led High School Students on an International Service Trip in El Salvador (partnership with the Peace Corp). 
• Led the design and execution of three murals in El Salvador with students and community members.

### Patent Litigation Paralegal @ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Houston, TX
Key Accomplishments:
• Grew quickly from entry level patent litigation paralegal to managing cases for Intel and Microsoft within seven months.
• Lead Outside Counsel paralegal on specific cases of WGM Patent Litigation clients Intel and Microsoft. 
• Animated technical tutorials explaining the technology in dispute for attorneys to use in hearings and trial.
• Consistently produced quality and accurate work under tight time constraints and in high pressure situations.
• Created pixel-perfect animations and powerpoint graphics for the litigation team.

### Storyboard Artist @ NanoKids Educational Outreach Program, Nanotechnology Research Group at Rice University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Houston, Texas Area
Designer Roles:
• Created concept sketches of more human-like characteristics and expressions of NanoKid characters
• Collaborated with NanoKids team to assess existing educational flows and site-map proposed educational flows.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rice University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alisonhiguera

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Last updated: 2026-04-13