Chris Burns, MFA
Principal / Chief Creative Officer, Fort Point Design
Chris leads Fort Point Design, a digital agency located in Boston, MA. He has served as strategist and design lead on over 20 web and mobile applications designed to create better outcomes in behavioral health. Specific areas of focus include supported employment, addiction, substance abuse, sexual health, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders. Chris has done award-winning interface design work for web-based interventions and commercial home automation systems. He has a BFA in Advertising Design from Syracuse University and a Masters in Information Design from the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art.
Fort Point Design provides creative strategy, information architecture, user experience design, visual design, standards-based web development, and mobile application development. They work with a wide range of academic partners to deliver mobile and web-based interventions that support innovative research, improve scalability of service delivery, and ultimately help deliver better patient outcomes. Their cross-functional team works across all key domains: planning, requirements analysis, design, source coding, and unit testing.
Hobbies include: cycling, skiing, music, and re-arranging the dishwasher for optimum washing performance.