Alison Gavine, MA

Dedicated Specialists

Alison Gavine, MA - Principal & Co-CEO

Frank Spillers Alison Gavine has an uncompromising interest in understanding human behavior, patterns and trends. She believes that great things happen when end users are given an active role in the design and delivery of products and services that impact their lives. She received her Master of Arts in Psychology from Dundee University, Scotland.

Alison brings over twenty years of management experience with an emphasis on people-centered participation and democratization of community infrastructures. She has promoted the use of Information Technology to regenerate communities through unique community efforts involving media, Internet, and emerging technologies.

Alison has a wealth of experience in consulting in both the public and private sector including nonprofit, healthcare and regional and national government. Alison has an established history of understanding user behavior and the social processes that lead to formation of community. She has conducted large-scale longitudinal field studies representing up to 20,000 users and as worked extensively in technology advocacy.

Alison has worked with numerous clients both in the US and the UK including Intel, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Schrodinger, KeyBank, Microsoft, Target, Affinity Group and British Gas.

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About Experience Dynamics

Experience Dynamics is a usability consulting firm providing global design research services. The company's User-Centered Design methodology and usability consulting services are used by Fortune 500 companies in enterprise, institutional and consumer facing products, software and Web environments. Since 2001, Experience Dynamics has delivered professional usability consulting solutions including usability testing, ethnographic user studies, usability reviews, usability surveys, usability training and user interface design services. In addition, the company hosts a community-based free online usability review service at www.PortlandUsability.com and rents and sells portable usability testing labs at www.UsabilityLabRental.com.

Clients benefiting from Experience Dynamics usability consulting services include Logitech, Intel, Verizon, Target, Wells Fargo, IBM, Key Bank, Hewlett-Packard, WhitePages.com, Land Rover, Providence Health System, Washington Mutual, Garage Games, Four Seasons, Microsoft and more.

Read company founder Frank Spillers, MS blog 'Demystifying Usability': www.demystifyingusability.com.