Christopher Daly has joined agency Digital Pulp as director of user experience reporting to Brian Loube, managing director.
Daly will be responsible for guiding Digital Pulp’s growing team of UX designers as they translate content strategy into engaging user experiences and create impactful, sustainable solutions for the digital agency’s clients that include Bausch + Lomb, Corcoran, Cornell University, New York University, the University of Virginia, the Urban Institute, Juilliard, and Quest Diagnostics. The director of user experience role recently opened when Digital Pulp partner, Sarah Blecher, took a leave of absence for personal reasons.
“Christopher is the perfect fit for our director of user experience role,” said Ron Fierman, president and CEO of Digital Pulp. “His breadth of experience spans categories from consumer goods and services to enterprise and B2B to health and pharma, and will serve Digital Pulp’s diverse range of clientele well as we develop custom UX solutions to meet each of their unique needs.”
Prior to joining Digital Pulp, Daly served as SVP products & platforms, and head of UX of BBDO Atmosphere Proximity, where he led a multidisciplinary team of information architects, content strategists, interaction designers and researchers on initiatives for Emirates Airline, Dubai Tourism, Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk, Visa, and Citi. Before that, he led a two-year overhaul of the entire user experience and product design process for a next generation financial advisor toolkit platform called GeoWealth. Prior to that, Daly served was a senior user experience consultant at several leading interactive consultancies in New York City, most notably TandemSeven and Roundarch (Isobar,) and held positions at Agency.com (TBWA) and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More