# Alli Hishikawa

> Product Designer at Quora

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alli

Striving to build products that make people feel understood and empowered.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Quora
Jan 2024 – Present
Working on Growth at Poe! (poe.com)

### Product Designer @ Five9
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Empowering customer support agents to do their best work through Generative AI.

### Product Designer @ Echo AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designing insight-driven customer experiences.

### Product Designer @ Coda
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bellevue, Washington, United States

### UX Designer (Capstone) @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Partnering with Microsoft for departmental HCDE Capstone.
- Investigating how mobile mixed reality might aid field technicians in documenting their learnings.
- Conducting interviews on UserTesting.com to understand key pain points in the field technicians workflow.
- Designing for mobile mixed reality using Figma and Unity.

### Writing Consultant @ University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area
- Support students in all stages of the writing process through a non-directive, conversational tutoring approach at the Odegaard Writing and Research Center
- Conduct 45 minute one-on-one sessions with writers (around 10 sessions per week)

### UX Designer @ ZSuite Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Leading UX on a web product to improve the escrow process.
- Conducting usability tests and interviews.
- Defining research-driven product features.
- Delivering hi-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.
- Aiding developers by contributing to UI in React.

### Product Manager @ Unify Square
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Conduct competitive analysis 
- Advocate for the customer through user research 
- Create UI/UX designs and collaborate with engineers

### Designer @ Barn2Door, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Executed creative projects on the Success team  
- Created design assets such as: websites, digital ad creatives, blogs, and events for Farmers
- Presented and updated designs according to feedback received from clients

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Washington Information School
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
- Lead sessions with other undergraduate and graduate researchers to co-design with children in KidsTeam UW
- Transcribed videos of design sessions for qualitative analysis
- Participated in developing themes around children’s perceptions of creepiness in technology by qualitatively coding data collected from video transcripts (using Miro)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Human Centered Design and Engineering
University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Human Computer Interaction
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alli-hishikawa
- Portfolio: https://www.allikawa.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29