Get to know the new head of our Experience Design department at the DigitasLBi Boston office — The Boston XD team at DigitasLBi recently welcomed Brent Eveleth to our team as our new SVP. I sat down with Brent to hear more about his past, his plans and his advice for the young leaders in his charge. …

Let’s celebrate a wonderful 1st year with a look back at our top 5 stories — We started the DigitasLBi XD team blog with a pretty humble purpose — provide a platform to share the team’s thoughts on Experience Design as it relates to our lifestyles, our fears, our ambitions, our challenges, our biggest gripes, and everything in between. We wound up with so much more…

Inside DigitasLBi XD is an interview series of the Boston XD team’s “Unicorn of the Month.” Where are you from? I was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Illinois, and went to college in Ohio. What was your first job? First job ever, or first job as an adult? I’ll tell you both. My first job ever was as…

Thinking about usability when the only user is yourself — Setting up a studio is a quintessential usability challenge: set up a world where the user doesn’t have to think, an “interface” to facilitate creation. I’ve been painting since I was 14 years old. The concept of having a studio in any form is a requirement for my life. I…

Pete Holmes gets his shot in this painful and brilliant HBO series. — I consider myself a bit of a stand-up comedy nerd. I love stand-up comedy as an art form: where an average human collects average observations and turns them into above-average insights & stories we’ve all had, but are too afraid to say out loud. Crashing is a new comedy from…

…or how I learned to appreciate delightful UX before I even knew what it was — After about a year of owning a computer with a CD drive, (late ’90s), I read somewhere that movies were going to slowly transition from the hearty yet fragile VHS to a new digital format on discs that looked just like CDs, called DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs). The idea of…

Bravery is not a choice when it’s your only option. — Hidden Figures (2016) Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. Based on a true story…www.imdb.com This review contains spoilers. Normally I like more risqué movies. I like explosions, fight scenes, swearing, and not-overly-gratuitous nudity doesn’t bother me. So movies like Hidden Figures don’t normally attract me as I find them a bit too tame. …

Candy-coated dreams melt away eventually — Written and Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt This review contains spoilers. With the recent passing of Debbie Reynolds, I’d been thinking lately about one of my favorite films when I was a child, Singin’ in the Rain. At first glance, its songs give the…

A love letter to the Massachusetts’ North Shore — Rated R, 137 Min. Starring Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, and Michelle Williams Written & Directed by Kenneth Lonergan This review contains spoilers. I often wonder what other parts of the country must think about the Boston area. So many movies over the years (Boondock Saints, The Town, Gone Baby Gone…