Miles Playne and I worked together on one of the UK’s biggest telecom transformation projects ever undertaken to date. He worked really well in a team and showed excellent leadership and organisational skills throughout the project. He also has a keen eye for detail and never stops thinking about the best UX decisions, to problem solve.
He’s a hardworking individual who works exceptionally well under pressure, keeping calm headed and focused, never loosing vision of the end goal.
Miles is a multi talented UX thinker but can turn his hand to anything from design problems. He also demonstrates a very good knowledge of UI and has a clear understanding of how digital can influence a space, as well as how people interact with digital spaces.
Robin Souter - The BIO Agency Executive Creative Director
"Miles was professional with a willing, positive attitude. He produced a high standard of work."
Alex Murray - Digital Director at Lidl UK (formerly Waitrose)
Miles is a talented design manager who applies his creativity and problem solving abilities with a fantastic attention to detail. When we worked together, Miles took a structured approach to managing the output of the design team produce high quality work inside tricky deadlines.
I worked with Miles on a high profile re-platform of a major supermarket transactional website. His proactivity and focus on the full spectrum of design activity from the micro detail to the broader principles and strategy was invaluable. He delivered a very high level of quality despite tight deadlines and managed a very high workload and competing priorities. I consider him to be extremely competent, skilled and a leading edge thinker in the design fraternity.
Miles is a very skilled designer, endlessly creative both on screen and with business challenges. He always showed great focus and is dedicated to the task in hand til the final throws. Very comfortable dealing directly with senior management which I think is a great skill in a designer. Working with Miles on the Waitrose.com website was a pleasure as he showed initiative and pride in his work. It's not always a marriage made in heaven when technical and marketing work together, but Miles managed the cross over very well. His passion for high quality design ran across the smaller details of individual page layouts to more strategic focussed design decisions.
He has excellent technical and creative know-how, and I have never seen anyone work so hard and with as much focus. If you are looking for total dedication to the task at hand, then this is the guy to go to. Great designer, a real perfectionist, with an understanding of creative solutions and it's applications. Also very personable and friendly. Overall, his work contributed towards a much improved and considered user journey, and overall shopping experience following our high profile re-platform launch in April 2011.
Miles provided design support on a high-profile project for a major supermarket. In a commercially critical environment he was able to recommend and implement key design solutions to improve the user journeys and overall shopping experience for the visitor on the website. His attention to detail and ideas were second to none.
"Miles was great to work with. He was proactive, understood what he was asked to communicate, worked mainly independently, stayed calm under pressure and asked the right questions. Lovely guy too!"
Miles came in for a particularly challenging project for The Times. This was tough due to internal politics, customer challenges as well as platform challenges. However, Miles proved to be a talented designer who also displayed great resilience. He has pride for his work, delivers creative solutions and during his time here often worked above and beyond the standard expectations of a contractor. His dedication to finding the right solution really impressed me and his attention to detail was impressive.
We often have to use freelance design resource and can so often be disappointed - as we are not simply looking for a great design eye and attention too detail, but also for someone who is professional, dependable, thorough, knows his stuff and is experienced enough to be able to put in front of clients and work fully self-directed.
Thankfully Miles demonstrated all those qualities and it was a pleasure to work with him and hope to again.
Miles is a fantastic and fast-paced creative designer. He delivered a SharePoint design project on time and to budget and his communication was clear and informative. I would definitely work with Miles again.
