Eric Reiss

Who is Eric Reiss?

Eric Reiss is the author of Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma '06. and Usable Usability. He has also contributed to several other books and publications, including Designing Web Navigation, Pervasive Information Architecture, Designing the Conversation, Speaker Camp and commentary to the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Reiss was President of the Information Architecture Institute for two terms and is the current Chair of the European Information Architecture Summit. Reiss is active in the information architecture/usability/user experience/service design scene. In 2010, he was named in a blog as "One of the Top 10 European Content Strategists to Watch". In recent years, Reiss has also been an outspoken critic of innovationists who do not differentiate between innovation and invention. Reiss argues that innovation is a later stage than invention and that it is always a planned activity and never accidental.