Allie Deford
Senior User Researcher at Expedia Group
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAllie Deford is a Senior User Researcher with 12 years of experience translating human insight into product strategy at Expedia Group, where she’s risen from researcher to senior manager and back to a senior research role. She specializes in end-to-end qualitative methods—usability testing, interviews, accessibility studies and benchmarking—to create actionable recommendations that balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. A trained human-centered designer (MS, HCDE) with a computer science background, she blends technical empathy and research rigor to bridge design, engineering, and product teams. She also teaches aspiring UX researchers and has built tooling and documentation systems to scale research practices across teams. Known for asking the hard questions and serving as a pragmatic voice of reason, she thrives on exploring overlooked paths to deliver executable ideas.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Human Centered Design and Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Evansville
Github Skills (3)
health8
remedy8
rad8
Github contributions (5)
SCIP-app/androidApp
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:110 commits, 27 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 months
AllieDeford/radremedy
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:41 pushes, 9 branches, 4 comments in 6 months
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