James Milton

Since moving to Austria, I have found myself in a band with two awesome bros.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦 - Braais, Safaris, Skydives and MORE! Feb 2020 - South Africa 🇿🇦 Over the Christmas Season and New Year, I travelled to the Mpumalanga province of South Africa to catch up with my girlfriend and her family over there. This video is an overview of some of the things we got up to whilst we were in this amazing country!

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According to the NHS UK, sleep deprivation can have profound consequences on an individual’s physical health. It can cause an increased risk of serious medical conditions, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and shorten overall life expectancy.

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GetSafeOnline aims to be the UK’s leading information resource for helping protect people, finances, devices and businesses from online fraud and abuse. Their website contains a variety of videos about staying safe online, from how to safely perform a computer backup, to gaming and dating online.

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For my girlfriend’s birthday, I made her a colouring book, filled with outlined drawings of some of our favourite photos. I traced each image using an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, then created the book in Adobe inDesign, then printed the book professionally.

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F1 is the second most popular sport in the Sky digital portfolio and over the next 6 years, Sky has unparalleled access to Formula 1 content and data. With new technology and innovation being at the forefront of the sport, this project aims to transform how fans watch Formula 1, with the Sky Sports smartphone app at the core. Whether you’re a fanatic or newbie to Formula 1, the purpose...

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Theme and Case Studies Considering the design principles of information design, this case study aims to understand how Gestalt principles, data graphics and Hick’s law can be used to make mobile banking more intuitive and beneficial for users. In 2017, 22 million people managed their financial current account through their phone and it is predicted that 72% of the UK population will use mobile banking by 2023 (Peachey, 2018). A...

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I was given a brief by Leeds Sky UK for a new app for their Sky Broadband customers. The brieff was ‘the app should provide customers with a clear visual representation of their home network setup and aid understanding of the relationship between their hub and speed to their connected devices, usage and signal strength.

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This project was about creating a magazine theme using one colour and representing its meaning through the overall design.

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Quick landing page I designed and developed for my local barbershop. Visit the site.

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On the basis of my dissertation about Smart Building data visualisation, I was contracted by the University of Sheffield and Arup to design and develop a VR system that provides intuitively visual representations of the internal and external environment of the University of Sheffield’s Diamond Smart Building. The graphical data visualisation techniques I am designing aim to aid performance analysis of the ventilation system in the atrium of the building....

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The University of Sheffield’s Diamond building was designed to be a ’Smart Building’. As such, it contains approximately three thousand sensors which report data about the Diamonds internal environment, including temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, seat occupancy, lighting and heating status to a database called a Building Management System (BMS). Given the quantity of data recorded in the Diamond’s BMS, simplex numerical figures of the building’s environment are difficult to understand....

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I was invited to be involved with the University of Sheffield’s undergraduate recruitment campaign which is based around the concept of ‘Explore, Challenge, Influence’.

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I made an Air Quality Sensor with information dashboard and mobile notification functionality.

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OpenGL is the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API in the industry, bringing thousands of applications to a wide variety of computer platforms.

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This is my first attempt of making a Twitterbot.

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Summer 2017, my friend Seb and I embarked on a little trip to Asia! We flew from London, U.K to Hong Kong and spent 5 days exploring there. Next, we flew from Hong Kong to Hanoi, (north) Vietnam. We had a month to explore Vietnam and it’s neighbouring countries. When the month was up, we flew from Ho Chi Minh City, (south) Vietnam back home to London. The next day,...

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April 2017, I went hitchhiking across Eurpose with my two friends, Chris and Caitlin.

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For a Computer Science university assignment, I had to make an implementation of a Solitaire (Patience) card game in Haskell, an advanced, purely functional programming language. The particular variant of Solitaire is called 8-Off.

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Since 2009, Google has iterated through four generations of driverless vehicles. Now Google have a real dependable prototype, which has been developed to work on motorways and in complex environments such as city streets, with over 1.5 million self driving miles under their belt [1].

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One of my A-Level (aged 17) Product Design assignments was to make ‘something (from scratch) inline with modernest style’. Thus, I took inspiration from Sir Norman Foster’s synonymous modernest style.

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This is just a generic website I made for a ‘Web and Internet Technology’ module which I took during my first year of University. The website has been designed for a ‘freelance digital designer’ in mind.

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I have a ‘healthy’ obsession towards my Cavalier Spaniel and Poodle crossbreed (Cavapoo) dog, called Jeff. As such, here are few Photoshop doodle’s I have made with Jeff as my inspiration.

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In 2013 my family and I embarked on a road trip coast-to-coast across the United States of America. I created this blog using Anchor, a CMS (content management system). This blog was updated almost daily throughout the 2 month adventure.

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One of my A-Level (aged 17) Product Design assignments was to make something from a piece of 30x30cm plywood. I decided to draw and laser cut a ‘flatpackable’ mounted deer head, as I have always liked how striking real life mounted deer heads look, but obviously disagree with unnecessarily killing of an animal for aesthetics.

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For my GCSE (aged 16) Graphics coursework, I created an ‘Activity Games’ pack, inspired by the then current 2012 London Olympics. Below are some images of the final outcome. The full development for this project can be found in the embedded pdf portfolio below.

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