Posts Tagged ‘Interactive’
The Next: Creative Catalysts

Miles recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Next Institute, who’s goal is to be a catalyst for creative and sustainable enterprise. Companies like The Next Institute understand the market and growing need for designers in a leadership position. Miles helped The Next Institute create and conceptualize pitches, while providing post production design [...]

Web Products & Brand 07/08

As a Creative Director at Fiver Media during 2007 -2008 I oversaw the development of all products for one of our major clients; The Bodog Entertainment Group. This included brand strategy, product excellence initiatives, interactive gaming & web experiences. …

Compentency Map / Performance Review Plan

As the co-manager of a team of 60, Miles developed a core competency map; professional development & performance review plan for Riptown Media; a company with 700+ employees Collective Members: Miles Nurse

Thinktank & Connected Services

Miles recently created the Riptown thinktank. A user experience led team who collaborated with all members of product and business development with a focus on research, concept development, prototyping, and user testing.  The goal was to explore new areas of user experience & revenue within the online entertainment space and develop conceptual plans for future [...]

Adobe Reel Ideas: Real Students

Miles recently got an opportunity to work with some of the folks from Adobe and VFS on the Reel Ideas Studio This is Adobe’s annual project at the Cannes Film Festival in which they introduce a select number of students to their software and have them film and edit movies in a week. These movies [...]

Project House Edge

As Miles and his team embarked on a journey to innovate within the on-line gaming world he knew redefining an entertainment product would be incredibly challenging. “Project House Edge” was an opportunity for his team to design a broad range of game products and supporting brand presence. The goal was to support establishing Bodog as [...]

Bodog Casino Redesign

Concepts for a new Casino Product re-design. The redesign was to include be more inclusive of women and use a new tag line “celebrate winning” Collective Members: Miles Nurse Role: Senior Producer

Riptown Redesgin: Bring your Passion to work

Miles spent the weekend working on a Riptown SLAM project. SLAM Projects also known as Deep Dives (made famous by IDEO) are projects in which you are given extremely aggressive time lines to accomplish huge amounts of design work. They are usually 2 -3 days in length. Using this as our inspiration we decided to [...]

Dynamic Wayfinding Signage

Goal: To improve wayfinding in shopping malls in the Vancouver area with a system that could be monetized in order to sustain itself. Process: Observed, interviewed and surveyed users to determine a list of possible solutions. After compiling data and identifying clusters a solution was explored. Solution: To create a kiosk and RFID system in [...]

Vancouver in Motion

Originally created as part of a concept called “Countdown to 2010.”Miles created a prototype of an online rewards system designed to help maximize the number of people in Vancouver who are active in the lower mainland area. It was a project Miles hoped VANOC organizers would be interested in as a part of the Olympic [...]

The Fossil Shop Inc Web Redesign

Goal: Was to redesign the existing outdated site with a newer, playful site. A site that was highly findable, could allow users to view an online catalog and was trusted by existing patrons. The client wanted something”not too slick” as the they wanted to have a certain amount of “mom & pop appeal” Collective Members: [...]

Liquid Adventures

Miles recently redesigned Liquid Adventures, a sole proprietorship that Miles owned an operated for many years. Liquid Adventures was a small boutique design agency that was founded to provide services for tourism and scuba diving organizations. The mission was to provide a broad range of products, from basic exposure packages for the budget conscious start-up, [...]