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Alan Tifford

Mobile Interaction Designer, Strategist & Innovator
Alan Tifford

Alan Tifford is a mobile experience design leader with 15 years experience. He's designed 5-star productivity apps for iOS and Android for Intuit, which have been profiled in numerous reviews, books, and magazines. He is the lead designer for TurboTax SnapTax, the mobile industry’s first ever start-to-finish tax preparation application for the iPhone and Android, reinventing the way people do their taxes. He focuses his energy on driving innovation and design thinking for complex projects from ideation to implementation. He's known as a problem solver and inventor with 9 patents and 20 pending in the areas of financial management and tax preparation.

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Raise Your Voice

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Star Power in Mobile UX Design