Eric Gould Bear named Chief Experience Officer at projekt202

AUSTIN, Texas -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- June 21, 2005 -- projekt202 is proud to announce that Eric Gould Bear has joined the company as its Chief Experience Officer.

Bear has been leading the design of award-winning human-computer interfaces since 1984. He has published numerous articles on the subject and is the first named inventor on over 50 software and hardware interaction patents and patent applications. With specialization in interactive telecommunications services and devices, he's established user experience strategies for many well-known corporations.

"We're delighted to have Eric join our executive team," said Jeff Steinberg, Director of Operations for projekt202. "Eric's deep focus on the end-to-end user experience perfectly complements our Creative Director's (Peter Eckert) visual and interaction design expertise. This collaboration and UI leadership will make projekt202 an even more agile and valued partner to our clients."

Bear's involvement strengthens projekt202's already top-notch application UI design work and helps expand projekt202's reach into the handheld and wireless space.

"projekt202 is an exciting up-and-coming design firm that produces incredibly high-quality UI work," said Bear. "I'm thrilled by the opportunity to help grow the business and knock the socks off the competition. These guys are not only smart, creative and cool, but stand out as extremely knowledgeable and well disciplined. We look forward to helping our customers deliver the most innovative and mature user experiences in the world."

This move brings Bear's family back home to Austin, where he founded MONKEYmedia, Inc. -- the design firm turned intellectual property licensing engine -- with his partner Janna Buckmaster Bear in 1994.

About projekt202
projekt202 is an industry-leading software user interface (UI) design firm encompassing expert visual / interaction designers and user-experience specialists united to bring a new degree of usability and possibility to digital design. projekt202 has partnered on mission-critical software projects with companies crossing numerous industry verticals including enterprise resource planning, retail, security and web analytics. projekt202's recent clients include SAP, Deloitte, GE, Retek, Coremetrics, Reflexis Systems Inc., Kavado and Topaz Software Corporation.

Contact Information:

projekt202, LP
Jeff Steinberg, 512-485-3070
jeff.steinberg@projekt202.com