Coffee Chat w/Christopher Miller
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Join us for a Coffee Chat session with Christopher Miller, Senior Experience Designer, Electronic Arts (Frostbite Engine Team).
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Coffee Chat w/ Christopher Miller
Date/Time: Friday, July 10, 2026, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: In-person, CEAD, 115 McCaul St. 3rd Floor
Coffee Chats is a series of casual gatherings with industry guests. Hosted at the CEAD in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating a community.
Christopher Miller - Senior Experience Designer, Electronic Arts (Frostbite Engine Team):
"I design tools that thousands of developers across 20+ studios depend on every day — work where a single decision can ripple through teams I'll never meet. Across 16 years in gaming, compliance tech, and ed-tech, I've learned the best design work lives at the intersection of systems thinking and genuine craft.
Outside of EA, I build. I founded Fenix Forge, a live coaching 1-1+Group experience, and built the Fenix Forge learning platform from scratch — Information Architecture, code, and infrastructure — using the same AI-native workflow I bring to my day job. I didn't wait for permission to learn how to build with AI; I started shipping and figured it out in motion. That's the same instinct that shows up in how I mentor: practical, hands-on, and allergic to theory without proof."
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Christopher Miller - Senior Experience Designer, Electronic Arts (Frostbite Engine Team):
"I design tools that thousands of developers across 20+ studios depend on every day — work where a single decision can ripple through teams I'll never meet. Across 16 years in gaming, compliance tech, and ed-tech, I've learned the best design work lives at the intersection of systems thinking and genuine craft.
Outside of EA, I build. I founded Fenix Forge, a live coaching 1-1+Group experience, and built the Fenix Forge learning platform from scratch — Information Architecture, code, and infrastructure — using the same AI-native workflow I bring to my day job. I didn't wait for permission to learn how to build with AI; I started shipping and figured it out in motion. That's the same instinct that shows up in how I mentor: practical, hands-on, and allergic to theory without proof."
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General themes for the talk:
- Hire Yourself First
- Networking as a Design Practice
- Reframing Setbacks
- Storytelling as Differentiation
**This event will take place at the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (115 McCaul St, Level 3). This event will not be recorded to preserve the conversational nature of the series.
115 McCaul St is located at the corner of Dundas St and McCaul St on the southeast side. All levels of the building can be accessed via elevator or stairs. The building is wheelchair accessible. There are gendered washrooms on level 3 and gender-neutral private washrooms on levels 1 & 2.
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