# Allison P.

> Product Designer at Betterment

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

👋 Hi I'm Allison! I'm a product designer who enjoys designing delightful and meaningful experiences through an empathetic, creative, and data-informed approach! I have a B.S. in Cognitive Science focused in Human Computer Interaction and a minor in Computer Science from UC San Diego.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Betterment
Jan 2024 – Present

### Product Designer II @ Credible
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
• Led the design of end-to-end features and tests, including Free Credit Score, Debt Tracker, and Money Plan, focused on helping users better understand, manage and find ways to optimize their finances
• Partnered closely with PMs, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide wireframes, prototypes, and final designs
• Optimized our logged in experience for engagement and conversion by rethinking the information architecture and navigation & adding personalization to new and existing modules
• Designed the user flows for browser fingerprinting & KYC which promoted stronger security for our site
• Conducted concept and usability tests to inform new product experiences

### Product Designer I @ Credible
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Product Designer @ Abound
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Collaborated with stakeholders, PMs, and engineers to design and build consumer facing products for a two-sided ecommerce marketplace
• Prepared user research plans with defined goals, conducted usability tests to validate hypotheses & synthesized findings to share with team
• Shipped designs for 15+ features related to growing active users, retailer retention, improving unit economics, and UI improvements
• Built and maintained the company’s first design system which promoted consistency & fostered efficient collaboration across teams
• Worked with marketing & growth to design campaigns, social posts, and emails

### UX Designer @ Home From College
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Built out the information architecture and created wireframes for both the student and recruiter's user journies, including onboarding, profile creation, messaging, posting/applying for jobs, etc.

### Product Management and UX Intern @ 99 Drive
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Iterated on current product and designed new features to improve the user experience for both used car sellers and dealers
• Created components, wireframes and high fidelity mockups in Figma
• Wrote user stories (summary of feature, requirements for implementation & acceptance criteria) for platform enhancements in Notion
• Ensured new features and enhancements were implemented properly by doing user acceptance testing and working with the engineering team
• Created various marketing assets -- redesigned informational flyer and edited multiple videos

### UI/UX Designer @ UCSD Design Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
• Created an educational tool that uses interactive graphs to teach people how insulin affects blood glucose levels
• Designed a personalized dashboard utilizing diabetes data
• Reimagined the user interface of Dexcom’s mobile app to improve CGM troubleshooting

### UI/UX Design Intern @ Five to Nine
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Optimized event editor to efficiently create, share, and manage different types of events
• Designed a list manager for organizers to manage email contacts and create recipient lists for event sharing
• Developed a “Getting Started” checklist for onboarding to support users and help prioritize their first actions in the platform
• Evaluated current site, implemented new UX patterns, and conducted usability testing
• Created multiple hi-fi mockups and prototypes in Figma

### Teaching Assistant @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, WA
• Taught a class of 20 girls the basics of object-oriented programming (Scratch and Python), data science (Python and JSON), robotics (Arduino C), and web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) in a 7 week summer immersion program held at F5 Networks
• Helped students debug their projects and answered their questions about key concepts
• Worked to create a fun and collaborative classroom environment

### Student Operations Assistant @ UCSD Design Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Updated the Design Lab website, assisted with Design@Large talks, and general office work

### Cognitive Science Instructional Assistant @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, CA
Class: Intro to Research Methods (Spring 2018)
Role: led weekly sections for over 30 students to review lecture material and answer questions, assisted with the class structure, and graded assignments and exams

Class: Cyborgs Now and in the Future (Fall 2018)
Role: assisted with the class structure and graded assignments

### Service Experience Attendant @ Nordstrom
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tukwila, Washington
Helped customers with returns, sales, and card payments, provided customers with their online orders, and supported the fulfillment team by filling web orders

### Lifeguard @ SafeSplash Swim Schools - Franchisor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Renton, Washington
Assisted swim instructors by greeting and helping students before class, then monitoring the pool area during lessons for rule violations, safety risks/hazards, and drowning victims and acting accordingly to these situations


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Cognitive Science
UC San Diego

### High School Diploma
Holy Names Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agp
- Portfolio: https://allisonpatacsil.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29