Tim Miller

✨ Design Research, Strategy & Education

Design researcher, strategist and educator with 15 years’ experience across agencies, universities, and global platforms. I turn complexity into strategies, narratives, and experiences that connect — combining agency practice with a PhD in design. Skilled in qualitative insight, facilitation, and narrative strategy for brands, education, and organisations.

Services

📚 Research & Synthesis
Turning complex academic or technical material — into insights that inform strategy and design.

🤝 Workshops & Facilitation
Designing co-design, foresight, and participatory methods — aligning teams and unlocking ideas.

💡 Narrative & Storytelling
Shaping brand narratives, presentation decks, and design communication — that inspire action.

✍️ Thought & Reports
Crafting articles, reports, and position pieces — blending design sensibility with strategic communication.

🎨 Design & Writing
Creating clear, creative communication — for individuals, studios, brands, and organisations.

Selected Work

🎬 Matter
Narrative strategy — collaborated with a nuclear fusion researcher, and two designers to turn complex science into a movie concept deck.

🌐 Bequasi.com
Website — self-initiated speculative service design practice combining creative direction, research framing, and copywriting.

🎭 Interview in Progress
Training programme — co-designed drama-based workshops and manuals with a theatre company, blending drama and participatory design.

📊 Power Point
Video project — eight participants delivered unseen presentations on presentation skills in an experiment in performance and communication.

😂 Consumer Feedback
Research publication — CoDesign article exploring humour and ethics in Amazon reviews, using irony as a method to rethink design critique.

🔎 Technical Breakdown
Research publication — CoDesign article on redesigning university PowerPoint lectures, framing disruption as a design research method.

🧠 Design Education
Creative research — Leading MA interaction design studio, coordinating lecture series and elective briefs, teaching industry collaborations with Google, Apple, Tencent.

🏢 Commercial Projects
Design at Imagination, Amplify, Event, Open Lab, Keko Group for Shell, Samsung, BrewDog, Facebook, NBA, Tetra Pak.

Let’s Connect

📫 tim@timmiller.xyz
🔗 LinkedIn

Made with ☕️ and ❤️ in London in 2025