By Miles

Mid-weight Product Designer

CENTURY Tech

CENTURY is the award-winning AI teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities. The platform uses artificial intelligence, neuroscience and learning science to create constantly adapting pathways for students and powerful assessment data for teachers.

◦ Developed a unified React design system of over 180 components in Storybook with a small team
◦ Streamlined the workflow for prototyping features using components
◦ Created wireframes and prototypes for new features and markets
◦ Wrote and improved tech and UX documentation
◦ Helped turn around a free B2C product in a couple of weeks to enable parents and children to access learning during lockdown
◦ Produced an icon library script to convert 73 icons with three variants (219 instances) from a Sketch file into SVG paths and a TypeScript type, ready for use in the Design System.

UI/UX Designer

By Miles offers a form of pay-as-you-go car insurance, where you pay per mile you drive. By using state-of-the-art insurtech, By Miles is making car insurance fairer, more cost-effective and easier to manage for people who drive less.

◦ Redesigned major parts of insurance quote flow
◦ Created a unified UI component styleguide
◦ Adapted existing quote flow designs to smaller viewports (Sketch, Zeplin)
◦ Created micro-interactions between flows on app & customer dashboard (Sketch, Principle, Framer, Origami Studio, Lottie)
◦ Designed website from wireframes to hi-fi prototype (Sketch, Zeplin)
◦ Developed Ghost CMS theme for ‘Magazine’ (Webpack, SASS, Handlebars)
◦ Designed marketing and transactional emails (Sketch, Zeplin)

Freelance Product Designer

Dashboard Media

Dashboard Media is a leading provider of cutting-edge training. They empower people to be more creative with everyday technology and have hundreds of happy clients such as Save the Children, The FA, English Heritage and UBS.

◦ Refreshed existing brand
◦ Redesigned website (SASS, JS, Craft CMS/PHP/Twig, Docker, GitLab)
◦ Designed collateral including banners and course presentations
◦ Assisted on training courses including smartphone video production and 360 video
◦ Photographed courses for marketing materials
◦ Designed and ran targeted campaigns on social media platforms
◦ Set up marketing automation and CRM sales pipelines (ActiveCampaign, Eventbrite, Zapier)

Freelance Creative

Self-Employed

Otto Car Ltd

Otto Car is London's largest PCO car rental company. Based in Hammersmith, London, they provide vehicles for London's private hire drivers. Its 2,300 cars are mainly electric or hybrid — the company says it has the UK’s largest fleet of Nissan Leaf electric cars — and carries 30,000 people a day.

◦ Pitched and delivered full brand identity with stationery and guidelines
◦ Designed and developed website for new brand (https://web.archive.org/web/20160501022229/http://www.ottocar.co.uk/)
◦ Designed collateral (a tri-fold leaflet, print ads, vehicle stickers)
◦ Set up marketing integrations between eCRM and website (PHP & REST API)
◦ Designed and developed site for London Black Cab brand

Ny Generation elev- och studentorganisation

A total of 20 months full-time voluntary work (initial 10 based in Birmingham, UK). Responsible for the majority of international media projects and remote support. Tasks ranged from graphic design for web and print, to event resources.

Skills used during time there included tactile & digital graphic design, digital photography, web design, web front-end (HTML, CSS, Javascript) & back-end (WordPress, PHP, SQL) development, basic project management, videography, colour correction/grading, sound engineering, technical support and some creative coaching/direction for volunteers from other international teams—particularly Switzerland and Russia.

Additionally embraced the opportunity to learn the Swedish language to working fluency.

International Media Intern

There is no shortage of innovation – my mission is to make it fairer, simpler and more accessible for everyone 🌍.

“If it’s broke, fix it”.

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