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Jeff Miller . Freelance Design & UX

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The home office.

The home office.

Let's make something awesome.

I'm a visual designer, and so naturaly I think everything should look good. But I'm also a musician, and that's taught me a thing or two about what makes stuff feel good. Like audiences…and context. And whether or not the song tells a story, or suits the moment.

Visual Design

I specialize in all things digital, my tools are Photoshop and Illustrator, whiteboards and napkins...I'll draw with sticks in the sand if it'll help. I enjoyed a past life as an HTML and Flash jockey, but these days, I leave the coding to the experts. 

I have tons of experience to help you with all the strategic stuff (see below), but if you've already come to a place where things just need to look great, I can help. Websites and apps, Illustration and storyboards, graphics and logos, infographics and presentations. All of those are fantastic excuses for me to put on the headphones and get lost in the work. 

User Experience Design 

It's a broad term – everyone says they can do it, most people know they need it, but what actually means is a stone-cold mystery.

I can help with that. 

For any project, there's a combo of UX tools to fit the job.  I'm an expert in collaborative case building, and all my documentation is designed for iterative,  multidisciplinary input. I specialize in Personas and Touchpoints, User Journeys, Strategy Visualizations, and Hi-Fi Wireframes – if none of those sound familiar, we should talk! 

Strategy Visualizations 

If you’ve got strategic ideas to communicate, a good visualization will do the job of a thousand Powerpoint slides. Make a stronger case and collaborate more easily around a visual story that communicates the interconnected pieces of your strategy.

Storytelling and Presentations

After years of working side-by-side with world-class copywriters, art directors, technologists, planners, and marketers, I've learned how to clean up communications and make stuff simple and clear. If you have a point of view that needs socializing, but all you've got is a whiteboard filled with scribbles, or a hundred doodled-on napkins tacked to your wall, or a giant PPT deck that's threatening to eat you alive, I can help. 

I'm open to all kinds of partnerships. I want to design and build things that make the world a more creative place. The road to awesome is paved with ideas and talent. Let's get busy.

I'm an Experience Designer.
Part visual designer/creative director, part user experience (UX) thinker-upper. Throw in a good amount of social media obsession and a couple of decades of original content creation and there you go;
Jeff Miller, Social Experience Content Design Strategy Director.
But really, just Jeff is fine.

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2012 Portfolio Roundup

Most of 2012 was spent working on an iPhone app, but that wasn't all!

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Book Covers

Three book cover designs for Journalstone, a very cool indy publisher specializing in horror and dark fiction.
Steel Breeze (2013)
The Devil of Echo Lake (2012)
Vale of Stars (2012)