I’m a design researcher and creative strategist with 15 years’ experience across agencies, universities, and international platforms. I translate complex ideas into strategies, narratives, and experiences — combining an agency background with a PhD in design. Skilled in qualitative research, facilitation, and narrative strategy, with experience mentoring teams and delivering insight-driven work for organisations worldwide.
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, 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 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 humour 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 product reviews, using irony as a method to rethink design critique.
🔎 Technical Breakdown
Research publication — CoDesign article on redesigning university lectures, framing disruption as a design research method.
📖 Not Another Friday Lecture
Curated lecture series and reader — edited a collection of texts and created a platform for dialogue across design, with a playful edge.
🕹️ Game Over
Design brief — MA elective exploring preservation of digital game cultures, designed as a strategic learning framework.
🧩 Interactions & Experiments
MA design studio — co-led an MA interaction design and research studio at the intersection of design and the social sciences.
Let’s Connect 📫 tim@timmiller.xyz