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The Next: Creative Catalysts

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:49:50 +0000

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 services. Their clients include many of North Americas top retailers.

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Web Products & Brand 07/08

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:47:24 +0000

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.

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Compentency Map / Performance Review Plan

admin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:49:12 +0000

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

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Thinktank & Connected Services

admin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:31:16 +0000

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 execution.

The first projects for this group where mobile research and product excellence (benchmarks and evaluation guidelines.)

Collective Members: Miles Nurse

Adobe Reel Ideas: Real Students

admin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:12:03 +0000

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 are then evaluated by a selected panel of industry professionals and winners are selected in a number of categories. The Reel Ideas Studio was created to allow users to interact, contribute, collaborate and observe the progress of these students while in Cannes.

Collective Members: Miles Nurse: Role: User Research & Experience Design

Project House Edge

admin — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:49:08 +0000

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 the world’s leader in on-line entertainment.

The focus of the project was to create an innovative multi-player experience through extensive research into player interactions, web based emotional response tests, and current emerging gaming trends. By analyzing our user base, creating effective personas and building on existing products we where able to provide the user a completely immersive, interactive experience that supported existing business goals.

Collective Members: Miles Nurse : Role As the Senior Producer on the project my role was to first design the team based on internal talent then lead the vision of the project from prototype to release. The team consisted of 12 members and was 14 months in duration.