Faculty Profiles
Christopher Fahey : User Experience Strategist; Founding Partner, Behavior LLC
Christopher Fahey is a founding partner and user experience design practice lead at Behavior, an award-winning New York web design consultancy focused on building compelling and elegant digital user experiences for business and culture.
At Behavior, Chris has led the user experience and interaction design strategies for clients and projects across many industries, including HBO, BusinessWeek, The Smithsonian Institution, McGraw-Hill, JPMorgan Chase, XM Satellite Radio, The National Geographic Channel, AARP, the AIGA, and The Onion. In his 14+ years as a professional interaction designer and manager, Chris’s projects have covered everything from business-critical web applications to sci-fi adventure games and artificial intelligence chatbots.
Chris is an active speaker on designing user experiences, with recent appearances including An Event Apart, the ASIS&T IA Summit, EuroIA, the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in New York, and SXSW. He has taught interaction design at FIT, Brooklyn College, and the City College of New York, and his internet artwork has been featured in the Whitney and the New Museum. He is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where as a sculpture student he focused on computer-controlled interactive objects and installations. Chris also writes about design, technology, culture, and whatever else he’s interested in on his blog at www.graphpaper.com.
Clients Include: HBO, Business Week, Smithsonian Institution, McGraw-Hill, JPMorgan Chase, National Geographic Channel, AARP, AIGA, The Onion, CNN, XM Satellite Radio, America Online, Microsoft
Awards and Honors Include: I.D. Interactive Design Distinction; Webby Award; Rhizome.org Net Art Commission; featured in the Whitney Museum Artport
- Education
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BFA, The Cooper Union
- Professional Experience
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Lead information architect, IA department manager, Rare Medium Inc.; lead game designer, Wanderlust Interactive and Music Pen
- Publications
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The New York Times, New York magazine, UK Design Council Magazine, Communication Arts
- On the Web
