Jamie Mill
Lead Product Designer at Polar Analytics
London, England, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Mill is a Lead Product Designer with 15 years’ experience crafting discovery-led experiences across startups and enterprise B2B products, now shaping analytics for Shopify brands at Polar Analytics from London. Comfortable switching between hands-on design, people management and strategic facilitation, Jamie has led rapid experimentation programs that seeded community-driven growth and built discovery practices used across teams. A practitioner of Lean UX, Jobs-to-be-Done and Indi Young’s mental models, they’ve institutionalised research workflows and taught methods like Event Storming and User Story Mapping to uplift product teams. Early front-end and back-end coding experience — including contributions improving CakePHP’s upgrade tooling — gives Jamie a pragmatic edge when pairing with engineers to ship iterative solutions. Known as a “walking method-bank,” they combine storytelling and technical fluency to simplify complex domains like pricing and B2B finance into actionable experience roadmaps.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Music Technology, BA (Hons), Music Technology at Rose Bruford CollegeBTEC National Diploma, Foundation Studies in Art and Design (Specialism Graphic Design), BTEC National Diploma, Foundation Studies in Art and Design (Specialism Graphic Design) at York College, York UK
Github Skills (8)
mvc-framework10
cakephp10
php10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
refactoring8
web-framework8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Mar 2011 - Nov 2011
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jamie contributed primarily to the `UpgradeShell` class within the CakePHP framework, focusing on improvements to the upgrade process. They fixed bugs related to file discovery and helper identification. Additionally, they added functionality to replace `cakeError` calls with exceptions and refactored existing code related to upgrading application code. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the migration tools within the framework.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
jamiemill/figma-xray
May 2019 - Aug 2019
A browser-based design linter for Figma files.
Contributions:144 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
linterfigmabrowserbrowser-based
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