Eric Reiss has been actively involved in the creation of menu-based programs, hypertext games, service programs, multimedia, and web projects for almost 30 years. Today, he is CEO of the FatDUX Group, one of Europe's leading user-experience consultancies, with offices in Copenhagen, Cracow, Hamburg, London, and Los Angeles.
Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1954, and raised in St. Louis and Chicago, he holds degrees in Political Science and Performing Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1976, he moved to Denmark to accept a position as a stage director at the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. In 1979, he published his first commercial program (for the Apple II) which helped engineers optimize theatrical seating systems, and in 1983, he co-authored the first Danish-language adventure game for the Sinclair Spectrum. Eric has been a full-time writer and business strategist since 1984.
Eric Reiss is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, the Usability Professionals' Association, SIGCHI.DK, the National Press Club of Denmark, and the Authors Guild, Inc.
Eric is Chairman of the EuroIA Summit Committee (www.euroia.org). He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business School and is Associate Professor of Usability and Design at the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, Spain. He is a past President of the Information Architecture Institute.
His written works include:
Honeymoon Trail (musical, 1976)
Marionettes (one-act play, 1977)
Skabet (computer adventure game, JC Jumbo Data, 1983)
The Compleat Talking Machine (Sonoran Publishing, 5 ed. 2007)
The Egyptologist's Vademecum (publication delayed, 1990)
Practical Information Architecture (Pearson Education, 2000)
Web Dogma '06 (e-zine Boxes and Arrows, 2006)
More info available at www.fatdux.com
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Reiss